Nxclient-resume: I want to show how we use the Nomachine ThinClient in action This is how we normally use permanent sessions at Oticon - Windows nxclient is started. Could have been VNC also - I start the Windows NX client - Use my NIS username and password to connect to my GUI server (where I have my) - Nomachine resumes my session on the GUI server - You can see that various applications are open already. - The applications are started on other compute servers using grid. They sent the graphics to my GUI server session. - I disconnect the session immediately for the purpose of returning in the next demo. Sepp: As I mentioned almost every application is installed as a SEPP package. Since SEPP is mounted on all the servers we can use the SEPP packages on all machines. - Returning to the NX session. - I list the many diffenent tools installations we have in the SEPP package system. - Each directory under /usr/pack is an individual tool installation. For example: matlab is installed in many versions. The sepp system installs a wrapper-script to all binaries under /usr/pack These wrapper scripts are accessed under /usr/sepp/bin so you unly need to have /usr/sepp/bin/ in your path to run the binaries. Sun Grid Environment: Our Sun Grid Environment installation helps us to get the most out of our serverpark and licenses. - Back to my permanent Nomachine GUI session. - Issuing a 'qrsh' command gives me a default terminal on one or the grid servers. Here we end up on gridserver 019. - Issuing a homemade serverload command tells me the current load on all teh servers. Number 19 was at that time the least loaded of the machines serving the default terminal. - If I specify another jobtype or ressource I may be directed to another server. vcs_regression is one of the jobtypes. - Also if I can specify a ressource - here the name and a count of a flexlm license and tell that I want to wait until the ressources are vacant. - We can also specify the cpu-type here p32 for pentium32. hen you end up on a 32 bit machine. Netboot: The last demo is a demonstration of how we netboot allmost all our Ubuntu servers. - The demo here runs in VMWare but it looks the same when we turn a Windows PC's into a diskless Ubuntu workstation. - (Pause ved grub disken:) You boot with the Oticon Linux netboot Grub-CD - (Fast forward:) It takes some time to boot. But its quite speedy compared to our Windows XP boottime at Oticon. Boottime for Ubuntu being around the half (3:08 Xp -1:33 Ubuntu) - Once we have booted this demo server it is now running the FreeNX server and we connect using NX.