Citrix Project Apollo Demo From Summit 08
Tuesday, 05 February 2008 by Michel Roth
Remember what Project Apollo is? It's a project at Citrix to make Citrix Product (XenDesktop Server and Xenapp Server) more suited to deliver multimedia applications. At the Summit 08, Derek Thorslund shows the progress Citrix has made in this area.

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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Citrix Project Pictor Demo (5 November 2007)
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Project Pictor: Citrix Continues To Explore Extreme Graphics (26 October 2006)
Microsoft Acquires Calista Technologies (21 January 2008)
Citrix Virtual Design Studio (2 March 2008)
Project IRIS (9 June 2005)
Project Mobius Beta 2.1 (12 November 2007)
Citrix Unveils Beta Of Application-Delivery Software (4 July 2006)
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