Citrix Project Apollo Demo From Summit 08 |
Tuesday, 05 February 2008 by Michel Roth | |||
The video shows Juan Rivera (Citrix Development Manager) demoing Project Apollo in the Tech Lab at Citrix Summit 2008 in Orlando. He shows the performance of a Windows Vista desktop on a Thin Client. He shows a OpenGL application, a WPF application, a Flash video and a Silverlight video. They all run remarkably smooth. Still, there's a catch. Project Apollo works with rendering the graphics remotely on a remote machine with a GPU installed. In this case it's a desktop that's equipped with a $300 GPU. I think that kind of takes away some of the thunder Project Apollo has. It's going to be interesting how Project Apollo measures up against the technology that will result from the acquisition of Calista Technologies by Microsoft. Calista also uses graphics remoting, but they use a virtual GPU, which is probably a much cheaper and hence more attractive option. However, Calista does not really have a project out there so time will tell how the graphical performance of Project Apollo will compare to the Calista technology.
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