The Seductive Appeal of Thin Clients (CMU-CS-05-151)

摘要: Interest in thin clients is very high today because of frustration with the growing total cost ownership personal computers. Unfortunately, may not meet usability goal crisp interactive response. This paper shows that adequacy thin-client computing highly variable, and depends on both application available network quality. For intensely applications, tight control end-to-end latency required by be hard to guarantee at large scale. The advocates concept stateless thick clients, describes how they reduce while preserving good performance. research was partially supported National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant numbers ANI-0081396 CCR0205266, Intel Corporation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed this material are those authors do necessarily reflect views NSF, Corporation Carnegie Mellon University. All unidentified trademarks mentioned properties their respective owners.