I've tried VirtualGL on Sun Ray using Ultra 45 workstations with XVR-2500 cards. It works alright, but naturally it's still slower than a local rendering solution, especially for full screen GL apps. I think this is a mix of both the network and the Sun Ray processing power being bottlenecks. I even tried mplayer using the GL output plugin with VirtualGL, and it didn't really match up with what ShowMeTV was capable of.
On a bit of a tangent here: I finally found ShowMeTV on an old Solaris 9 supplement CD I still had lying around. Video performance on a Sun Ray is mindblowing, but I couldn't get any sound out of it :/ However, it does give me hope that there might be further room for improvement in video performance :) Hopefully Xrender will work well and get included :) If not, I've been told by a KDE dev that QT can still be compiled with to use graphicssystem raster which in theory would make the KDE 4 ugliness on Sun Ray go away. William > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:sunray-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tobias Oetiker > Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 5:05 PM > To: SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Any plans to support RENDER extension in > Xnewt ? > > Today David Markey wrote: > > > Ye, i figured that, If the server had a Gforce 8800 for example, could > > the processing power be shared between ~20 X servers? Hypothetically > > Speaking of course. > > I think it can, even practically, even today ... I have not tried > this though ... > > http://www.virtualgl.org/About/Introduction > > cheers > tobi > > > > > > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > David Markey wrote: > > > > > >> Dave McGuire wrote: > > >> > > >>> On May 7, 2009, at 12:32 PM, ottomeister wrote: > > >>> > > >>>>> Are there plans to support RENDER in Xnewt ? > > >>>>> > > >>>> We're just about ready to run some experiments with RENDER. If > it's > > >>>> stable and helps performance then there's a good chance that it > will > > >>>> be supported in the next release of SRSS. > > >>>> > > >>> This is very good news! > > >>> > > >> So you'll all have Compiz at the ready! > > >> > > > > > > Not even close. Compiz requires OpenGL with several extensions, > > > - the Composite and Render extensions are easy to deliver by > comparison. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SunRay-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > > > > -- > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland > http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
