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
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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
>>
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