Reminds me of Sun Ray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] >> >>In your estimation, what would it take to build a prototype with >> >>decent shader support for something like OpenGL 4.2 support? >> >I'd like to see this too. I'm debating cashing out part of my 401k >> >so I can spend a couple of months full time working on this. >> > >> >Would you be willing to put up some cash (or equivalent engineering >> >time) to make this happen? I think this could be a great crowdfunding >> >project, but its going to take lots of people to put in time and/or >> >money. >> My company builds communications and virtualization services for >> companies using KVM/LINUX. >> >> I do not have the engineering expertise to work on something like >> this, other than if you had a piece of hardware I could write the >> kernel driver and DRI parts to make it work in X. MESA components >> might be a learning curve there for me as I do not know much about >> MESA. > > Let me get you thinking about something then. Let's say we put an > InfiniBand card in your KVM host machine. Now we design a board using > the OpenShader and the Infiniband FPGA code > ( https://bitbucket.org/carter00/infiniband-fpga ), so that the board > has a couple of ports: > > * power > * infiniband > * DVI/HDMI > * USB > > This board becomes your 'dumb terminal' that connects to the KVM/Linux > host, and you have the right X/DRI driver magic in KVM, the X libs, and > the kernel to do RDMA-pass-thru all the way to the userland application > running in KVM. > > (If you don't like InfiniBand, you can just do > s/Infiniband/Data Center Ethernet/ if you like) > > For additionally sillyness, integrate x2go.org code into the fpga, either > as hardware, or running on a cpu core. > > Begin Patent troll bait ----> > [IP NOTICE: this design concept is released under a GPLv3/AGPL/Open > Hardware license, and the IP is also available under alternative licenses > for commercial implementation for a fee] > <---- End Patent troll bait > -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
