| Citrix Project Pictor Demo |
| Monday, 05 November 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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Project Pictor is about hardware acceleration for OpenGL graphics on Presentation Server. This means that there are (special) graphic cards inserted into your Presentation Server so the ICA Client can utilize the server graphics power to display the (graphically intense) application. The advantages would be the typical Server Based Computing advantages: you'll be able to run that graphically intense application from anywhere and the security boundary will still be at the data center: the data will ever leave the data center. Note that Project Pictor (like Project IRIS was) is one of the older projects within Citrix (did Project Ocelot roll into Project Pictor?). Since IRIS finally showed herself in CPS 4.5 Feature Pack 1, perhaps Project Pictor is on the way as well? it can't be denied that Citrix is starting to show more Pictor skin: at iForum Edinburgh Citrix also flashed Pictor bits.  In the the Citrix Application Delivery Expo demo Lee Laborczfalvi, Citrix architect for project Pictor, demonstrates hardware acceleration for OpenGL graphics on Presentation Server. He first shows what an image looks like in the current Software rendered CPS 4.5 environments and then he shows what it looks like with hardware acceleration. Impressive. Near the end, there's a cool bonus movie of the Citrix PR department to show that Citrix employs actual humans ;-) Check out the demo here.
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