[THIN] Re: thin client deployment in a school

Thanks to all of you for such informative inputs.

I have already recomended desktop PC for the heavy apps.

Regards,
Puneet

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Steve Greenberg <steveg@thinclient.net> wrote:
> Rick,
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> How come I am not surprised that you have a daughter that does that!!?!
>
> Good point, I was thinking in the context of a recent college project we did
> where VDI was sufficient for such applications because they were simply
> doing basic learning labs. If you are doing extensive rendering type of
> workloads then I agree that you probably need dedicated workstations with
> capable resources in CPU, MEM and graphics.
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> Although don't forget that a typical VDI server is (4) Quad core CPU's so
> there are plenty of light and med workloads that work pretty well too!!
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> Steve Greenberg
>
> Thin Client Computing
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> 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
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> Scottsdale, AZ 85266
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> (602) 432-8649
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> www.thinclient.net
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> steveg@thinclient.net
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> ________________________________
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> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf
> Of Rick Mack
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:59 PM
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Re: thin client deployment in a school
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> Hi Steve,
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> My daughter runs Maya at home and her quad core AMD with a high end graphics
> card has to work pretty hard to do some of the rendering. 3D Max isn't any
> better so I'd have to say that neither of them belong on a shared
> environment, TS or VDI. That automatically makes a case for either using fat
> clients and something like PVS, or PC blades and 3D graphics display-capable
> protocol/thin clients. In the latter case you're looking at RGS or PCoIP
> with PVS possibly being used for the PC blade provisioning.
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> If thin clients are the logical choice to keep the expensive hardware away
> from students, you don't have a lot of options.
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> Some of the other stuff will most certainly run on VDI or TS but I'd
> probably opt for VDI so you could stick to just managing a single
> environment (workstations/thin client) on the keep it simple principle.
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> regards,
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>
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> Rick
>
> --
> Ulrich Mack
> Quest Software
> Provision Networks Division
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Steve Greenberg <steveg@thinclient.net>
> wrote:
>
> I agree with the idea that for intensive appliations such as Maya and
> AutoCad that a mix of TS and VDI is a very strong solution. Use the TS for
> general applications to gain the efficiency of the shared servers and use
> VDI for apps that require more resources and/or have compatibility/support
> issues.
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> I also like Provision Server to PC hardware because you get the best of both
> worlds-local graphics performance and compatibility with centralized
> mamangment.
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> In *some* cases I think Provisioning Server to PC is a better thin client!!
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> Steve Greenberg
>
> Thin Client Computing
>
> 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
>
> Scottsdale, AZ 85266
>
> (602) 432-8649
>
> www.thinclient.net
>
> steveg@thinclient.net
>
>
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>
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