XenDesktop7 and Raspberry Pi

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XenDesktop7 and Raspberry Pi -

first blog, but we hope that the Raspberry Pi enthusiasts will find interesting!

I am Muhammad and I am on Citrix to almost 9 years. For the last 2 of those years, I worked on the effort "Citrix Receiver for SoC" SoC with various partners. In short, we propose an ARM version "pluggable" Citrix Receiver for Linux (now working on version 13) and partners choose to hardware accelerate various aspects, for example, JPEG decoding, to improve performance.

We have seen some good results in the past on a wide range of devices, but it has always been to back of the mind to try to eeek as much performance as I can from the Raspberry Pi. - a $ 30 ARM device targeted to the hobby programmer

the first job was to build a version Raspberry Pi ARM receiver for Linux floating disc. once that was done, I started to Windows 7 on XenDesktop 7 on Pi to see what was the basis of performance of rendering 720p video host.

3 FPS. Yes, you read correctly, a set THREE fps. Admittedly the Pi is largely under-powered compared to some other devices I used to work with, but 3 FPS is difficult to use, even for the type of scenarios office-workers allow movies or games to play 720p only.

So I have to work, and in my free time learning a little more about the hardware capabilities of the Pi. There are a lot of useful information out there on the Pi, but when it comes to decoding H.264, documentation is a bit scarce. However, after reading about different API decoding and about the effort from one day to the decoder, I managed to get something working and with the help of a colleague, pulled a short video (be sure to see in full screen!) showing "before vs. after".

We are now hopeful that Pi could after all be a thin client perfectly usable every day :)

18 / 03/2014 Update download the latest Receiver for Pi here: / blogs / 2014/03/17 / raspberry-pi-XenDesktop 3-pt-receiver download here /

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