Re: multicore gizmos

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one
>> desktop on a single system.  And by more than one desktop, I mean full
>> KVM, audio, and USB (preferably with the ability to tell which desktop is
>> doing
>> the plugging).  Ideally, the kind of thing that could host more than one
>> gamer.
> 
> You mean something like having one central machine that runs all the
> software along with, say, 50 or 60 desktops which are exported as remote
> X sessions to a bunch of remote graphical terminals?

Well, more like the next level.  One machine driving two physically
connected consoles in the same proximity.
 
> Been there, done that.  Look up XDMCP.  It's not actually that hard to
> do under the X architecture, but it really wows people nonetheless.  Not
> quite up to your gaming ideal, though - even if you had a machine with
> the horsepower to run 50 copies of $FAVORITE_GAME simultaneously, the
> delays introduced by shipping the video over the network would be a
> killer.
 
I'm familiar with XDMCP, used it extensively back in high school.  Lack of
XDMCP is one of those things that irritates me so much about Windows.