HP Xw460c Session Allocation Manager 2.1 -- Optimizing your HP Blade Workstati - Page 5

keyboard and mouse inputs from the client computer, and sends them to the blade workstation for processing by the OS and the applications running on the workstation. Figure 3. RGS provides visualization between a blade workstation and a client computer. Computing resource Interactive desktop image This symbol denotes the HP RGS product. The stylistic R stands for "Remote" while the Greek gamma symbol stands for "Graphics." Client TCP/IP network HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation Keyboard and mouse inputs HP Compaq t5720 Thin Client RGS provides extremely fast capture, compression, and transmission of the desktop image (the actual frame buffer pixels) using standard TCP/IP networking. For more information on RGS, visit http://www.hp.com/go/rgs. SAM also supports the use of Microsoft® Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect between client computers and the computing resources. RGS, however, provides significantly higher performance than RDP, and has a number of features which make it particularly suitable for workstation-class usage, including: • Support for multiple monitors-RGS sends the complete frame buffer of the blade workstation to the client computer. For example, the HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation supports a frame buffer (and Windows desktop) that can be configured up to 5120 x 1024 pixels, equivalent to four 1280 x 1024 monitors. Similarly, the HP dc72 Blade Workstation Client supports up to four attached monitors. Therefore, the complete frame buffer (Windows desktop) of the blade workstation can be transmitted and displayed on the four client monitors using RGS. • Connection to multiple blade workstations-RGS on the client computer can connect to multiple desktop sessions, each running on a different blade workstation. Figure 4 shows two blade workstations, each sending their Windows desktop session to the client computer for display. SAM can be configured so that, in connecting to multiple blade workstations, the desktop session of each blade workstation is displayed on a separate monitor on the client computer.