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Re:Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released by ch6530 on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:58AM (#4686829)
The current trend in scientific computing is to put GPUs on the server and push pixels to the client, e.g. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/software-switc...
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Re:Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released by Sanddancer on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:18AM (#4686952)
For which they're using VNC, not X forwarding. There are a lot of ways to push those pixels that don't involve X.
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Re:Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released by levesque on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:32AM (#4687732)
Oh, it's a trend? How often is scientific computing about pixels anyway? I'm willing to bet not very often. Most of the time the results are a bunch of digits, a few matrices at most - a configuration, a solution to a problem.
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