On 12-02-17 07:13 AM, VITIELLO Fabien wrote: > Do you know if it's possible to realize the following scheme in the > attached file with VirtualGL ? > > The scheme describes the following use case : > > An application located on a platform P1 (which has no 3D hardware > acceleration support but communicates with other applications through > inter-process communications (IPC)) calls OpenGL commands redirected to > a remote X server on a P2 platform which has a good 3D hardware > acceleration. The 3D rendering is displayed in this P2 platform. > > This use case could take advantages of the communication inter-processus > with a remote 3D acceleration on another platform. The display could be > done on the platform P2 or P1 via the VirtualGL client/server feature.
Certainly possible, run the app with VGL on P1, but set VGL_DISPLAY to P2 (e.g. VGL_DISPLAY=P2:0). (This is interpreting your "IPC" as simply meaning remote X11 rendering.) However, whether this will give you acceptable performance is highly dependent on a) is the application written to handle indirect rendering well (i.e. if it does 500 glGet()s per rendered frame you're out of luck), and b) how fast is your network between P1 and P2. -Nathan OpenText ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
