Thanks, DRC. VizStack is not released as a product by HP - in the sense that a customer can't buy VizStack or support for it. However, we will be supporting it through SourceForge.
-- Shree -----Original Message----- From: DRC [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:31 PM To: VirtualGL Users Subject: Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Announcing VizStack Cool! I'll add this to my things-to-do list. Is HP officially supporting this? On 5/19/10 11:18 PM, Kumar, Shree wrote: > > > I am pleased to announce that a new release of VizStack > (http://vizstack.sourceforge.net/) > is now available. VizStack can be installed on GPU clusters running Linux. > Each node can > have 1 or more GPUs; only nVidia GPUs work are supported for now. > > This has some features that I believe will be useful to users on this list; > I've seen > email on this list that asks about setup needed for VirtualGL. VizStack can > help in the following ways: > > 1. You can start TurboVNC/VirtualGL sessions on a GPU cluster using either > - a GUI that is installed on your desktop > - a command line script (viz-tvnc) > > Inside the TurboVNC session, you just use "vglrun" to run your apps; > everything else is setup for you automatically. VizStack takes care of > allocating GPUs to users, configuring and starting X servers, etc. > > 2. Each GPU can be shared with 2 or more users. The number of users a GPU > can be shared with is configurable per GPU. In this case, the "vglrun" > for users sharing a GPU is redirected to the X server configured with > the shared GPU. > > 3. Another script (viz-vgl) is available. This uses the VirtualGL Image > Transport. Basically, you run the VirtualGL client on your desktop, SSH > to the cluster, run viz-vgl <app>, and the application pops up on your > desktop. Stereo is supported with viz-vgl, but GPUs cannot be shared > currently in this scenario. > > Also, > > 4. If you are a ParaView user OR Avizo user, you can run these applications > either directly (from the command line), or from the TurboVNC/VirtualGL > session. > > VizStack works on a single node too, not just a cluster. It should install on > all Linux distributions; we provide packages for 64 bit RPMs for RHEL5, > SLES11/10, and Ubuntu 9.10. As an example use case, if you have a two GPU > machine, you could quickly use VizStack to allow 2/4/more remote users using > TurboVNC/VirtualGL. > > NOTE: If you use VizStack, you may notice that it starts X servers > dynamically, > and not all of them on :0 :-) > > If you run into issues, please feel free to contact me/send email to the > VizStack > user's mailing list(subscription needed). > > I am also looking forward to any feedback you may have w.r.t how we setup > things. > > Cheers > -- Shree > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > VirtualGL-Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
