If a Raspberry Pi is not quite fast enough, perhaps a Beagleboard or Pandaboard may be?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Jens Langner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >
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