[ Thanks to Doug Loss
for this link. ]
“Malcolm Smith reminded us of XASS, and what it’s intended to
do. As he puts it:“If you have multiple servers, these can be used to
host graphical, X11 applications that are displayed on a large
number of clients. XASS means that the client will request an
application to be run on any of the servers, without being tied to
a specific one. Loadbalancing code should (theoretically) ensure
much more efficient resource utilisation, as a server that is fast
to respond and doing relatively little will be used in preference
to one that takes a long time to respond or is busy.“We can see where this could be very useful in a scholastic
environment…”