On 2011-03-06, Christian Weiß christian.weisz@spoc.at wrote:
Consider an installation of about ~600 low budget thin-clients (with almost no 3D support from the graphics chip) running as X-Terminals. Those thin-client stations are serviced by a host computer for 25-30 stations each. This infrastructure should be the basis of an architectural/interior planning system with serious demands in terms of 3D rendering. It's all clear that the client hardware will not be able to provide the power, so it comes down to a server-based rendering approach. Therefore some of ATI's or Nvidia's latest boards should be attached to the host computers forming a CUDA cluster for their terminals. So, the question is: how to get the image to the client?
This is already addressed by VirtualGL project http://www.virtualgl.org/.
-- Petr