Thin Clients OS?

[brokebeardedguy]

Can anyone point me in the direction of researching leveraging my server's hardware for compute power. or whatever this type of computing is considered.

 

example: my mum works for an insurance company. they all work off thin clients. when working from home they have a phone, document scanner, fax/printer at their desks.

at the office they print to a group machine. However, when logging in they use a network style login. all the compute power is done on servers at her office. and all her peripherals are local. (what ever is plug into that specific client)

 

someone had suggested using remote desktop but I'd rather use a few thin clients as appropriate locations instead of needing to build a small machine for each location

[Electronics Wizardy]

What OS is the server running? What software? You can use rdp, but normally each solution has their own protocol for things clients.

Is this for home use? Thin clients dont make sense normally at home use due to the large amount of setup required to make it work and often little to no advantage of using thin clients.

[brokebeardedguy]

23 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What OS is the server running? What software? You can use rdp, but normally each solution has their own protocol for things clients.

Is this for home use? Thin clients dont make sense normally at home use due to the large amount of setup required to make it work and often little to no advantage of using thin clients.

i use a variety of cad programs, and other various programs. the cost of constantly trying to upgrade multiple machines is getting out of hand vs leveraging the power of just one system and multiple locations.

 

6 separate machines, and i update my server every so often already. why i was trying to look at thin clients.

also having to boot a system and then connect to RDP

 

you could say it's for home use. but it's a non-typical home use. i have two systems in my shop, office, and two remote systems at an offsite garage.

i have access to all versions of windows, server 03 and server 08

primary server is dual e2660/96gb eecddr3 ~96tb spinning disks

 

we went back and forth on a different thread about this. if no one has any answers to the question I'm trying to ask ill just ask elsewhere.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, brokebeardedguy said:

i use a variety of cad programs, and other various programs. the cost of constantly trying to upgrade multiple machines is getting out of hand vs leveraging the power of just one system and multiple locations.

 

6 separate machines, and i update my server every so often already. why i was trying to look at thin clients.

also having to boot a system and then connect to RDP

 

you could say it's for home use. but it's a non-typical home use. i have two systems in my shop, office, and two remote systems at an offsite garage.

i have access to all versions of windows, server 03 and server 08

primary server is dual e2660/96gb eecddr3 ~96tb spinning disks

 

we went back and forth on a different thread about this. if no one has any answers to the question I'm trying to ask ill just ask elsewhere.

Id avoid think clients here and just have normal workstations. Normally cheap, much les matience and work to keep up, and less software costs.

 

If you want to do thin clients well, you need something like vmware horizon, so you will need new servers, thousands in licensing, and a good amount of setup and configuring. Getting good workstations for each location will be cheaper and work better.

 

 

 

Get rid of those old windows server systems unless you can't upgrade, and if you can't limit as much network access as possible

[wseaton]

Thin client computing is either Citirix/RDS, or VDI. Not much in between.

 

With one you are just stacking remote desktop sessions on a single OS, and the later you are running a virtual OS for each session (Horizons). 

 

Thin clients are fine for business apps or browser based apps. They return their costs via centralized application management. They do not save costs from a hardware perspective. That argument went out the window in 2004. 

 

Xeon E2660 is outdated junk. My near 10yr old quad-core i7 2600 has double the single thread performance. Some CAD apps work ok over RDS connections. Some don't. Depends on your pain threshold.

[brokebeardedguy]

On 12/23/2021 at 10:24 AM, wseaton said:

Xeon E2660 is outdated junk. My near 10yr old quad-core i7 2600 has double the single thread performance. Some CAD apps work ok over RDS connections. Some don't. Depends on your pain threshold.

i keep hearing this. but it performs well still bench tests better then a 7700k while running all my programs during the benchmarks. and cost me a whopping 87usd. should do even better when my 35usd pair of 2680v2 get installed  

 

not saying its the best system ever, but cost to performance having a hard time with something to beat it only paid 6.50 for the 96gb of ram and suggestions on something newer with a better cost to performance ratio?