----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [opendx-dev] 4.1.0
> No, not quite yet... but the preparation for it has begun. We're firing up > a Windows2K box with an NVidia card so that we can build and test on the > platform they'll be making available. Using Exceed3D. We're also > preparing for the - what are they calling it? the bakeoff, shootout - > whatever, importing and visualizing the data sets they set up. A couple > aren't too tricky, one is tricky but not large, one is huge and I haven't > been able to download it. Beware Exceed XDK 6.2 is lousy and some my application linked to Exceed XDK 6.2 were crashing. Exceed 6.1 had no problems on Win2K. I had been bugging Hummingbird to provide fixes. They had promised they would fix it but no time frame. > > I'm working on the MS stuff - trying to be careful. Its all up to date WRT > CVS, but not checked in. I've built it both ways successfully - gcc and > MSVC++, and am going to build it one last time on MS. I don't think it > installs correctly; I have to admit, I am very confused as to how the > cygnus stuff is supposed to handle .exe extensions. Anyway, its almost > done. The *.exe support in 4.1.0 is broken. On installation you get errors, for example dxexec not found. I have a sccript which takes care of this problem. Suhaib > > I've got a couple of hard deadlines coming up for OpenDX on distributed > machines. I've punted DDX for the moment - since I couldn't realistically > offer it to an IBM customer as a solution anytime soon, and fallen back on > a much simpler approach using virtually vanilla OpenDX,. Basically, OpenDX > runs as a master on one node, and as slaves everywhere else. The master > uses a few custom modules to communicate with the slaves, sending out data, > causing the execution of macros all over creation, and joining when all the > slaves finish the macro. I'm also implementing a simple sort-last parallel > renderer for it. We're in the process of building a little cluster machine > to play on. > > Greg > > Rick Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 04/12/2000 > 06:16:04 PM > > Please respond to [email protected] > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [email protected] > cc: > Subject: Re: [opendx-dev] 4.1.0 > > > > Unless I'm mistaken, the conference in NY is going down about now.... > > > On 12-Apr-00 at 18:10, Suhaib Siddiqi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > There seems to be no activity on OpenDX list. Is 4.1.0 rock solid for > all > > the users? > > > > Is not time now to check in the new patches? Any news about Win32 > patches > > from Greg? > > > > Thanks > > Suhaib > > >
