Re: diskless windows philosophical question

If your application runs only in Windows your are
somewhat limited.
Have you tested your application using a client
and RDP or ICA
protocols ?
Does your application use 3D graphics ?

Diego Torres Milano
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ASUNTO: [pxes-devel] diskless windows
philosophical question
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FECHA: 09-03-2005 11:07
Hello all,

I'm beginning to work on a project where we have
an existing lab of
PCs
running Windows 2K and XP (and a few running
Linux) and would like to
eliminate the system drives from them.

These systems run a variety of applications
related to real time
flight
simulation, where timing is important and the
applications could
require significant compute horsepower.  I presume
that this workload
is different from the typical diskless thin client
deployment where
the
thin clients are doing lighterweight tasks such as
word processing,
Internet browsing, etc.

I've seen thin client approaches such as PXES that
use the Windows
Terminal Services, remote X, etc.  I've also seen
approaches from
vendors who put a copy of the whole system drive
image on a remote
server and the diskless client accesses the system
files across the
network.

>From your experience, which approach would be the
most appropriate
for
this deployment?

Please forgive my ignorance, but with the Windows
Terminal Server, do
the applications run on the terminal server (where
all the thin
client
does is draw the windows and take mouse and kb
input) -- or does the
thin client read the executable across the
network, do all the
program
execution locally, and writes output to a shared
file system?

My guess is that the former would not work well in
my situation.

Thanks!

Dave

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