ITR: An Experimental Study of Thin-Client Computing Architectures

瘦客户机系统最近越来越流行，这使得开发用于分析和比较其性能的技术、评估瘦客户机计算模型在现代网络环境中的总体可行性以及确定控制这些体系结构性能的因素变得非常重要。该项目包括进行一系列实验，以获得关于各种网络环境下图形和多媒体应用程序的瘦客户机架构机制的有效性的信息和理解。这些实验包括使用几个真实应用程序进行性能分析，以及使用专门的微基准测试进行控制实验，这些微基准测试旨在隔离瘦客户机架构中对整体应用程序性能有重大影响的特定方面。应用程序和用户工作负载将会变化，以理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伸缩性。这些实验将在一个测试平台环境中进行，在这个环境中，带宽、延迟和数据包丢失等网络特性以受控的方式变化，以了解它们对瘦客户机架构设计选择的影响。这些实验的结果将通过为瘦客户机计算研究的未来创新奠定定量基础而产生根本性的科学影响。

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.