On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Charles Paul <charles.paul@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Must qualify myself as a network administrator who used to bottom-line
> 400+ LTSP terminals and the 9 LTSP servers they ran off of.
>
> There are a couple of major benefits from using terminals: Cost and
> Ease of Maintenance. The ease of maintenance (over time) will offset
> the initial costs.
>
> Suse KIWI LTSP is the current way to go if you need a fast and stable
> solution. As for Beowulf . . . ask #ltsp on Freenode if anyone has
> stories to share about running Hadoop under local-client execution.
> As for HA - check out ltsp-cluster which is integrated into KIWI.
>
> Best of luck,
> Charles Paul
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Thanks Charles,
The larger the network, it seems the better the savings. I still have
in-shop considerations as well as the number of clients being relatively
small, only 18. Every little piece of info is very helpful and you've
dropped some pretty big breadcrumbs. Thanks.
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