Recent Product Release

This page describes versions and functionality of

Sun Shared Visualization Software (for remote visualization and collaboration), and
Sun Scalable Visualization Software (for using multiple graphics cards in one system or in a graphics cluster)

Sun Shared Visualization Software

Current release is 1.1u1. 1.1 release focused on simplifying installation, configuration, and use.

1.1u1 merely improved documentation and added the Mac OS X (Intel) client.

Component versions and new features follow:

New Feature
Benefit
vglserver_config script
greatly simplifies server configuration
vglonnect script
simplifies client use
Symbolic links
simplifies documentation by normalizing paths between Solaris and Linux
Windows installation includes an optimized PuTTY 0.60 SSH® terminal emulator
Provides better performance than stock PuTTY (and saves a separate installation step)
Enhanced VirtualGL configuration dialog
More dynamic control. Now applies to Sun Ray thin clients.
glxspheres test program / benchmark included
Trivial to verify your setup and try any mode
Lossless RGB and Greyscale JPEG encodings added
Can alternate between high compression for interactive use and lossless viewing for detailed study.
Anaglyphic (red/cyan) stereo added
Quick and easy stereo display on clients that do not support quad-buffered stereographic display.

New Feature
Benefit
Enhanced performance (when used with the TurboVNC viewer), esp. on Solaris
Noticable performance improvement
Lossless refresh
Use high compression for interactive use and get a lossless copy for detailed study when animation Scalable ceases.
Lossless RGB and Greyscale JPEG encodings added
Reduces CPU usage when used over gigabit (or faster) networks.
Three quality options
Simplifies tradeoff between performance and image fidelity
Default window geometry increased
Default window size is now 1240x900 (useful on 1280x1024 displays).
WebVNC viewer now defaults to a separate window
No longer any interaction with use of the TAB key.

New Feature
Benefit
config_gfx script
greatly simplifies server configuration
TurboVNC RUN script now exits normally
Simply use your window manager's exit procedure; no special EXIT window.
Advance Reservation e-mail reminders included
Can request E-mail reminders of your advance reservations.
Run.glxspheres script included
Trivial to verify your setup and try any mode
Subcluster allocation is supported for Scalable Visualization clusters
Easily define any subset of your graphics cluster to allow simultaneous use of nonconflicting subclusters.

The current release is 1.1. This release added operating system support and updated components. Component versions follow:

Processor Architecture
Operating System
Operating System Releases
Graphics accelerators
x64 (AMD64 or Intel 64) and x86
Solaris x64 OS
Solaris 10 update 3 or 4
NVidia Quadro series and Quadro Plex series
x64 (AMD64 or Intel 64) and x86
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 2, 3, 4 or 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
NVidia Quadro series and Quadro Plex series

Component and Version
Purpose
Features
Open Fabric Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.2
Open source InfiniBand driver, modules and libraries
Supports Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) and IP over IB (IPoIB) Diagnosis and benchmark tools in /usr/local/ofed/bin
MVAPICH2 0.9.8-12
Open source message passing interface (MPI2) package for InfiniBand Used by Chromium and Paraview

Distributed multi-headed X server (DMX)
Creates one large desktop spread across multiple devices (on one system, similar to Xinerama, or on a graphics cluster)

Chromium 1.9
Popular open source graphics cluster middleware
Runs unmodified OpenGL application in multiple pipelines and displays on multiple screens DMX integration API provided for object space partitioning Sun added an MPI communication module
OpenSceneGraph 1.2
Popular open source multipipe scene graph API for 3D graphics rendering
Partitions render pipeline into 3 stages, each with its own thread Employs a display space render task partitioning
Paraview 3.0.2
Popular multipipe visualization application for HPC
Widely used in national labs and universities Supports object space render task partitioning Supports tiled displays without bucketing the data Uses MPI as inter-process communication protocol Runs on both graphics cluster and server with multiple graphics pipelines

last modified by admin on 2009/10/26 12:18