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News Release from: Matrox Graphics | Subject: EpicA graphics cards and EpicA software
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 April 2008
Graphics cards extend thin client
displays
Boundless Technologies can now provide customers a multi-video desktop that consumes less than one-tenth the power of an equivalent PC desktop.
Matrox Graphics EpicA graphics cards and EpicA software are now available bundled with Boundless Technologies' ADDS 6700 thin client With this combined offering, users benefit from significant productivity gains associated with the effective use of more screen real estate
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The challenge of bringing flexible multi-display support to a thin client is twofold: first, the add-in device must be low power and passively cooled".
"Second, the behaviour of windows management on a remote multi-monitor desktop needs to mirror the experience of using a traditional, local multi-monitor desktop", says Mohamed Jivraj, Product Manager, Matrox Graphics "With Matrox EpicA embedded, the ADDS 6700 gives users a secure and reliable thin client platform with rich multi-monitor and windows management options".
"We are very pleased to be partnering with Matrox Graphics, a partner who understands display technologies and the requirements of the financial and commodity markets", says John D Ryan, COO of Boundless Technologies.
"This partnership will allow Boundless to provide customers a multi-video desktop that consumes less than one-tenth the power of an equivalent PC desktop and boasts the industry's best desktop management software".
Matrox EpicA features dedicated hardware that includes DualHead (EpicA TC2 and EpicA TC2-Lite) and QuadHead (EpicA TC4) graphics cards.
Key attributes include low power consumption, support for high resolutions with digital or analogue displays, widescreen resolutions, and pivot or rotation capabilities.
Matrox EpicA also constitutes software that enriches large remote desktops.
Matrox EpicA restores multiple-display awareness to help manage application window behaviour, while Matrox PowerSpace EpicA provides virtual desktop workspaces to better organise application access and deployment.
Both applications are essential to capitalising on the benefits of using multiple monitors.
Boundless Technologies ADDS 6700 thin client provides customers with a powerful, cost effective and secure alternative to desktop personal computers.
The ADDS 6700 thin client supports a wide range of display configurations, comprised of two to six displays.
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