Re: [RDD] Centralized RD System?

[Tim Camp <timc@xxxxxxxx>]

Michael Barnes wrote:
> A crazy thought just entered my mind.  Has anyone considered a centralized type RD system?  I'm thinking of one "superserver" that would hold all audio, database, etc. plus all the audio cards.  Then have workstations run the apps remotely, like X over ssh.  The workstation could be a pretty light weight machine running an X server.  You could even use (gasp!) a windoze machine as a workstation, running Putty or the like and run the app via the ssh tunnel.  I know I can VPN into our LAN and ssh -X to an RD machine and run RDCatch, RDAdmin and RDLibrary.  I never tried to play audio, however.
> 
> The first issue I see is that some RD apps, like RDAirplay, will only run one instance on a workstation.  That might be overcome by using a bunch of VMs for each workstation.  The other issue I see is the audio cards.  I don't know how interfacing the audio cards or other hardware with VMs works.
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> You could have one or two nice multi-core mega-servers connected by fibre channel to a SAN with a couple TB of storage.
> 
> Just some thoughts for those who like challenging projects.
> 
> Michael
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We have exactly that in our remote broadcast bus.
One server, five thin clients, works well with some limitations.

Tim Camp
WZEW-FM
Mobile, Al.

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