Hi Steve,
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.
If thin clients are the logical choice to keep the expensive hardware away from students, you don't have a lot of options.
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.
regards,
Rick
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Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
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.
I also like Provision Server to PC hardware because you get the best of both worlds-local graphics performance and compatibility with centralized mamangment.
In *some* cases I think Provisioning Server to PC is a better thin client!!
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85266
(602) 432-8649
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