Request for sponsered development...

[Petr Pisar]

On 2011-03-06, Christian Weiß <christian.weisz at 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