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Configuring a U170 Shared Computing Environment
NComputing Inc.
March 09, 2010
Overview
NComputing's desktop virtualization technology enables significantly lower computing costs by
letting multiple users share a single PC. With the U170 product up to 10 users can share and
simultaneously access a single PC.
The concept of shared computing is not new, in fact if you go back to the early days of
mainframe computing, multiple users shared a single system using basic access terminals. PCs
forever changed the economics of computing – allowing people to have the power of the
mainframe on their desk. As technology has progressed, the PC has become so powerful that
most users are now only using a fraction of the capability of the machine, resulting in wasted
resources and wasted power.
NComputing takes this excess power and shares it among multiple users, resulting in more
efficient usage of resources and hence lower costs, easier set-up and management and a far
superior environmental footprint.
NComputing manages the shared PC resources with the vSpace™ desktop virtualization
software and distributes those resources to each access device. NComputing vSpace software
efficiently accesses the features and functions inherent in the host PC’s operating system to
distribute its capabilities among users with minimal overhead. Therefore every U170 station can
see operating system responsiveness and application performance that is nearly the same or equal
to that of the host PC.
Setting up a multi user environment is straight forward but there are a few fundamental
computing attributes that should be known and understood. The document will outline how to
best configure a U-series environment by discussing the best configurations and topologies for 5
and 10 multi-user environments.
