Re: Re: Re:Re: 32bit depth problem

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:44, Manuel Tornos wrote:
> Ok, Stephan, I think you understood Citrix can't manage 32bit color
> displays, so you don't need to look for make PXES work on 32bit.
> 
> It's not useful, and will be never be used under Citrix.
Additionally, Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP sessions are faster if no
traslation is made between the session and local display color depths.
> 
> By the other way, I want to remember the size of the images is not the
> only point to look for... talking about network transport and server
> requirements.
> 
> A compressed image file could be a big transport over the net, a big
> (decompress image file, compress display to be sended over the net to
> the workstation, calculate the needs of information to be sended to the
> workstation if, for example, the user makes a move or a zoom...) work
> for the server processor...
> 
> A normal radiology doctor could make fire in a powerful workstation. A
> big farm of 4 citrix power servers could be absolutely satured with 4 or
> 6 docs making a hard work.
> 
> Profesional image work is better made with a high level workstation...
> even if Citrix says it's not a problem... "demos" always work better
> than reality.
> 
> And not, 200Mbit switch could be inmediately fired with 5, 6... or 10
> docs looking, moving, resizing, zooming images and images. But for this
> work you will need a farm with 4 multi-processor servers with lots of
> memory.
> 
> By the other way, you will need to scale every point in your network to
> be sure it will could support this work:
> 
> - Be sure the network card(s) in every server will never by freezed by
> overworking.
> - Be sure the switch/es could support (all over your network tree) this
> transport witouth bottle-necks.
> - Be sure your storage system is stable, powerful, bigger and quickly
> enough for this jobs.
> - Be sure you server's proccessors will support the full power needed by
> the applications served.
> - Think that -perhaps- you will send and receive more information using
> this kind of applications between your server and your thinclients than
> between your server and your network storage system, so under this
> perspective, perhaps your csp's backbone power is not so neccessary as
> your main network vias.
> 
> Best regards,
-- 
Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]>
PXES Universal Linux Thin Client
http://pxes.sf.net



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