Citrix recently showed off Project Pictor at the Citrix App Delivery Expo (iForum). Project Pictor allows high-end 3D applications to be delivered via ICA. In the past, this was possible, but unusable due to the “jerky” motion of the 3D rendering and rotation. Project Pictor eliminates this limitation by using high-end graphic processor cards to offload graphics processing to the hardware. This makes delivering 3D applications over ICA a reality - even to thin clients. Just keep in mind that Project Pictor takes quite a bit of extra equipment per Presentation Server to pull this off.

You can see this in action in a video hosted at DABCC.com. Be sure to stay tuned to the end of the video to see how Citrix “uses” this technology internally (although I’m not sure Quake 3 counts as productivity software).

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