Is there an advantage to installing Pro/ENGINEER locally on all client nodes, as opposed to installing on a single file server?
Installing Pro/ENGINEER locally on each client node has advantages and disadvantages as follows: Advantage: A performance improvement may be noticed by installing Pro/ENGINEER on each client node since Pro/ENGINEER can directly access its installation directory for all required software, opposed to making system calls through a network. The magnitude of the performance difference will depend on system hardware and configuration. Disadvantage: If Pro/ENGINEER is installed on each client node, multiple Pro/ENGINEER installation directories will exist, each consuming at least 160MB of disk space for Release 2000i2. With multiple Pro/ENGINEER installation directories, an update installation is required on each machine in order to update Pro/ENGINEER to the next major release. A file server environment will save disk space and is less time consuming to maintain, but performance may fall victim to convenience. Batch tasks or simple drag and drop copies can be performed if the machines archit
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