I know that PCoIP can route display, sound and power controls over Ethernet to a remote user. But for my new workstation, the vendor is not providing PCoIP support but only IPMI. I want to know that if I would be able to route true video output with all OpenGL and 3D rendering at the server (unlike VNC) using IPMI. Also what about sound?
Edit: And if not, are there any competing technologies to PCoIP with similar capabilities?
Answer
I’m not sure why you would want such a technology, but it sounds a lot like MS’s new Remote Desktop extensions. The difference being that the RDP Extensions would allow you to use the video acceleration on the displaying computer.
I don’t think you’re going to find what you’re looking for. Conservatively, lets say your running 1024×768 resolution, 32 bit depth, at 60Hz. That’s 1.5Gbps of raw data. You could cut it down to 500Mbps by cutting the frame rate to 20Hz, but lower than that and you’ll notice flicker. Now we could employ compression technologies like MPEG-x to get lower bit rates, but that’s going to require some powerful hardware compression to do it in real time where it would be acceptable for remote desktop use. So now we’re talking a very low volume product, with high cost components, and very little value; that’s a recipe for ‘not gonna happen’.
IPMI was meant for Management functions, not streaming live OpenGL 3D renderings over IP.
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