Hi Ken,

Am 15.07.2013 um 22:52 schrieb Ken Mandelberg <[email protected]>:

> We have 100 physical Sunrays (1's, 2's and 3's). I would be interested in 
> moving to thinlinc except for the hardware investment in clients.
> 
> I wonder if something cheap would work like a Raspberry Pi? It apparently 
> fast enough to run XBMC at 1080P.

We actually investigated that possibility here in our institute (~120 SunRays) 
and in our experience the Raspberry Pi is simply to underpowered to deal with 
the necessary load ThinLinc&Co produce. In addition, it doesn't support dual 
head displays.

As a net result of our evaluation we are currently nevertheless in the progress 
of replacing all our SunRays with intel NUC 
(http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/nuc.html)
 based systems (Celeron-based version costs ~150,- EUR) for which we adapted 
the free Linux-based "thinstation" ThinClient Operating system (PXE boot) and 
are using ThinLinc to connect to our Linux-based servers. Our current plan is 
to have all our SunRays replaced by the beginning of 2014.

The good thing with ThinLinc is also that there are Solaris clients which you 
can use in a SunRay environment; so we are currently switching over users step 
by step as we buy more and more NUC systems.

best regards,
jens
-- 
Dr. Jens Langner
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research
Department of Positron Emission Tomography
POB 51 01 19, 01314 Dresden, Germany
http://www.hzdr.de/ | +49 351 260 2757

Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Roland Sauerbrey
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Peter Joehnk
VR 1693 beim Amtsgericht Dresden

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