[GRLUG] New Ubuntu Student Lab with MultiseatX

[john-thomas richards]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 12:00:45PM -0400, Darrin Sculley wrote:
> Here is a summary of the selected hardware:
> ASUS M4A79 Mainboard with Quad x8 PCI slots
> AMD Phenom X4 955 Quad Core CPU
> 8GB of OCZ DDR2 1066 Memory
> 2x OCZ 30 GB Solid State Disks with Linux RAID
> 4x Radeon HD 3450 HDMI video cards
> 4x 24" widescreen HD monitors with HDMI
> 4x USB hubs
> 4x Logitech USB Keyboard/Mice sets
> 
> Yes, this hardware is way overkill for a student lab.  But since it services
> 4 students at once, I wanted to build something beefy.  Besides, building
> fast computers is fun.
[snip]

Anyone here have experience with nComputing?  They have a hardware
solution that enables ten clients to work off a single pc with modest
specs (compared to the above, anyway).

http://ncomputing.com/Solutions/Xseries.aspx
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