At Florida Atlantic University (FAU), if you pull the cord attached to the mouse used by a faculty member or a researcher, you won't find a computer at its end. Instead, you'll find it plugged into a box marked "Teradici," slightly larger than a paperback novel. The device has no CPU, no installed application, no operating system. It has a PC-over-Internet-Protocol (PCoIP) card that facilitates communication with a virtual workstation housed elsewhere. The absence of real computers on premise, however, doesn't prevent FAU students, instructors, and researchers from running AutoCAD, Solid-Works, ANSYS and other professional design software.
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