| Tim Mangan Discusses 64-bit Terminal Server |
| Monday, 20 February 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"New servers based on what is generally called the “x64” architecture CPUs from AMD and Intel are now available on the market. These new processors allow for a 64-bit operating system to run both 64 and 32-bit applications side-by-side without modification. This advance is of great interest to the Terminal Server and Citrix communities due to the unique scalability limitations of the 32-bit Terminal Server, which is limited to 4GB of usable RAM and suffers from a shortage of “Page Table Entries” (an internal housekeeping function of the Microsoft OS). With the necessary software finally coming together, it will soon become viable to run x64 based Terminal Servers. In addition to scalability due to x64, enterprises may see form factor (dual core) and price incentives to buy x64 on new servers in the near future. This short paper addresses the question of which applications need be, or should be, 64-bit executables when run on an x64 based server." Download the paper here.
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