It's not the cpu the real problem. X is not accelerated. The GPU could accelerate this some, but the efforts have stalled. Framebuffer VNC is plenty fast, but you are limited to 1080p, so no driving a 27"...
Francois -- www.pyptug.org - raspberry-python.blogspot.com - @f_dion On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Garry Taylor <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >
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