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OK, so now we are on Zotac’s booth, and they are presenting us a very cool stuff.
It allow you to control your computer directly from the network.
Controlling one's computer from the network is cool, being able to display it directly,
and to play games and all from the network is even better.
So, actually here… Come on I'm going to tell to you.
Here is a gigabite network, because with the 100 mbt/s, it lags a bit.
It’s normal, actually the flow coming out from the DVI port goes directly into a PCI express card,
which encodes it again, then compresses it on the network
and then sends it back through the network to this small box.
We have the DVI port, we also have the USB port which is connected via the USB on one of those cards.
It’s a PCI express card 1.0. We also have the sound which passes through the PCI-Express.
We have the power supply of the box, of course.
And we have…
Yes, actually, the commercial model will come out with the HDMI and not the DVI.
Here it's the DVI for the prototype.
So, basically, it's just the concept of controlling a PC from a LAN. Well, like PC-over-IP.
And you can play games, here is for example the game 'Lost',
that's pretty cool!
So here is the original screen. So we're on the best quality settings and biggest bandwidth consuption.
We use almost 250Mb/s, via a Gigabit LAN, as I said.
So here is the actual PC screen, and here is the remote screen.
Which is the one you might have in your living room.
So here we can play a game. You can see the quality there, we've got the maximum quality,
that is, the one the user would have if he was on his actual PC.
About lags, it's quite not bad. I think it must be, like... well, less than10ms.
The only way for me to check would be to play Quake3, and since it is not installed, I can't.
So let's say, for example, we are playing and…
well not the cleaning staff because we're not in a business,
but let's say, there's a child playing with the cable and then she disconnects it.
We immediately lose the connexion. We quickly guess that it’s actually instantaneous, there's no lag.
Right? So we keep playing on the computer, but we have no more control, since it’s disconnected.
Then if we reconnect on the computer, we can immediately regain control and play again.
So for the moment that's fine!
Afterwards, we are going to have an administration interface directly via the network.
So it’s kind of similar to configuring one's router at home.
So you can configure the maximum bandwidth that can be used, and things like that.
Adjusting the quality... So for example you're on a network…
Here a gigabite network, but you are on a 100 mbt/s. merely connected to a router you can adjust,
and then you're like : “well no, I want to use only 30 mbt/s, actually 100 mbt/s on the network.”
Well, you can. Actually, you are going to decrease the quality and keep the resolution
and it’s going to be just like watching a poor divx screener
which you have which you have downloaded from the web.
So here, we've actually defined the options on the minimum.
So the resolution is like, 2500 by something...So it's kind of huge, so it's going to lag, obviously..
We're in a game, right?
Then, for a game, for example, it's not interesting.
So we've just seen how to play a game. We've seen it lagged with uncareful settings.
So this is the original screen ok?
So the quality will be decreased a little bit due to the tune setting, but nevermind...
And, come on, in fact, on this screen right here,
we have the version via the network, with a 30mb/s network.
With the original quality.
So here you can see it lags a bit, so we are going to reduce the quality so that we have no more lags.
So we reduce the quality at about... 20%...applying the settings..
So now, when we watch the video, it's fluid. It's almost as fluid as on the original pc, right?
Here, we're on a network limited to 30mb/s. And the thing is, in fact it's like if we were watching a divx.
You probably all have already downloaded a divx on the net.
And for that matter, when you watch a screeer the quality's even worse.
So, this is the original screen, and this is the modified one.
So with lower quality and on a network bandwidth limited to 30mbits/s.
The final word is for those who don't know about the virtualization technologies.
It works with a chip from IBM called TERADICI.
This chip is usually very expensive when it is directly found on dell's servers.
You have to know that this technology has a great success among today's companies.
Anything which is virtualization is really the future for companies.
You can find all this information on "Labovirtualisation.com".
It's one of the technological laboratories of “Supinfo”.
I think we'll tell you more often about these technologies.
Knowing that we have direct contacts, and we will probably make other videos in the future.