The below and attached diagram illustrates a 6-Workstation SoftXpand Cluster. The computer (1) has a Windows XP (and SP2 or above) and three dual-head video cards (8) installed. Each of the available VGA (9) and DVI (10) ports connects to one of the 6 monitors (5) via a VGA (16) or DVI (17) cable.

Each monitor is part of a user's independent Workstation which also includes a keyboard (6), a mouse (7) and (optional) a set of earphones (22) or earphone with attached microphone (23) connected to a USB sound device (21). Apart from one workstation utilizing the PS2 (14) and onboard sound card (15) ports all components in each of these sets are connected to a self-powered (20) USB HUB (19) which, in turn, is connected to the SoftXpand computer via a USB cable (18) plugged into the computer's USB ports (12).

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