ITR: An Experimental Study of Thin-Client Computing Architectures

瘦客户机系统最近日益流行，因此开发技术来分析和比较它们的性能、评估瘦客户机计算模型在现代网络环境中的一般可行性以及确定控制这些体系结构的性能的因素变得非常重要。该项目包括进行一系列实验，以获得信息和了解瘦客户端体系结构机制对于图形和多媒体应用程序的有效性，不变的网络环境。这些实验包括使用几个真实应用程序的性能分析，以及使用专门的微基准测试的对照实验，这些测试旨在隔离对整体应用程序性能有显著影响的瘦客户机体系结构的特定方面。应用程序和用户的工作负载将有所不同，以了解和分析不同远程显示机制在网络和服务器资源方面的可扩展性。这些实验将在试验台环境中进行，在该环境中，带宽、延迟和丢包等网络特征以受控的方式变化，以了解它们对瘦客户端架构设计选择的影响。这些实验的结果将产生根本性的科学影响，为未来瘦客户机计算研究的创新奠定量化基础。

The recent and growing popularity of thin-client systems makes itimportant to develop techniques for analyzing and comparing theirperformance, to assess the general feasibility of the thin-clientcomputing model in modern networking environments, and to determinethe factors that govern the performance of these architectures. This project involves carrying out a series of experiments to gaininformation and understanding on the effectiveness of thin-clientarchitectural mechanisms for graphical and multimedia applications invarious network environments. These experiments include performanceanalysis using several real applications as well as controlledexperiments with specialized micro-benchmarks designed to isolateparticular aspects of thin-client architectures that have significantimpact on overall application performance. Application and userworkloads will be varied to understand and analyze the scalability ofdifferent remote display mechanisms in terms of network and serverresources. These experiments will be conducted in a testbedenvironment in which network characteristics such as bandwidth,latency, and packet loss are varied in a controlled manner tounderstand their impact on thin-client architectural designchoices. The results of these experiments will have a fundamentalscientific impact by laying a quantitative foundation for futureinnovations in thin-client computing research.