High performance graphics using VirtualBox and VirtualGL

ThinLinc is an excellent platform for advanced graphics and visualization. All graphic updates are abstracted on the server side, thus giving great performance independent of application type or toolkit. ThinLinc has support for graphic-intensive OpenGL-based 3D CAD/CAE/FEM/CFD in mixed Windows, Linux and Unix desktops.

The ThinLinc server software provides a fast built-in OpenGL implementation, based on Mesa. Server-side, hardware accelerated OpenGL can be provided by using VirtualGL in conjunction with ThinLinc. This makes ThinLinc very well suited for graphic intensive applications such as CAD-CAM, CAE, and visualization. Through integration with VirtualBox, it is also possible to get this acceleration with OpenGL and DirectX based Windows applications.

With ThinLinc you can use a graphics processing unit (GPU) in the server to render 3D graphics, with many users sharing one GPU. The graphics is transferred to the client using a fast VNC implementation named TigerVNC. A special accelerated JPEG codec is used to provide extreme graphics performance, capable of encoding streaming video in real time.

ThinLinc with VirtualBox and VirtualGL

Download Guidelines and best practice information relating to the integration of ThinLinc with VirtualBox and VirtualGL. (PDF - 0.6MB)

ThinLinc Product Sheet

Download ThinLinc Product Sheet - Advanced Graphics (PDF - 1.4MB)

Customer Case Study

Through the use of ThinLinc, Saab Aerosystems is able to substantially reduce the problems caused by different tools requiring different operating systems. Download Case Study of Saab Aerosystems (PDF - 0.7MB)

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