On 05/20/10 11:55 AM, Kumar, Shree wrote: >> I hope you will extend your support to more platforms, beside Gnu/Linux. >> (OpenSolaris, BSDs etc) >> > It is too early to say anything about this. Testing software on clusters > of these would be a whole lot of effort - so anybody trying to use VizStack > on such systems will have to be involved. > > >> And why (oh why) you are stranded yourself only on Nvidia chips shore ? >> >> That is problem that seems to be intentionally put in inside underlying >> components. >> If you use OpenCL, you could use all comutational power and Including >> Nvidia and AMD (cheaper per speed) GPUs and other processing CPUs available. >> > That's because the developers use nVidia cards. nVidia drivers provide a > consistent > interface to all their GPUs, and we use that. The API provided by VizStack > tries > to be vendor-agnostic, and relies only on concepts rather than actual > implementations > (e.g. "GPU Combiner" rather than "SLI"). > > The tool that generates the X configuration files is where most of the nvidia > specific logic resides. > > All said, I do not believe that VizStack should be limited to nVidia chips > only. > If anybody is interested to add support for other cards (ATI, for example), > I'd > welcome that - and aid it too ! > > However, note that adding such support is a significant amount of work - > VizStack > has a much more capable core than what it shows on the outside; we are hoping > to > add support for more applications over time. > > Regards > Thank you for your nice response ;)
Just one more comment. Would not using OpenCL help with portability? Or I am mistaken and X configuration files are main place for that, like you were saying. Thank you! ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
