About This Guide

Welcome to OpenGL Vizserver!

Remote Servers

With OpenGL Vizserver, you can interact with images and three-dimensional models utilizing the capabilities of any of the following remote SGI servers:

  • SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality3 or InfiniteReality4 graphics

  • SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfinitePerformance graphics

  • SGI Onyx 300 systems with InfinitePerformance graphics

  • SGI Onyx 300 systems with InfiniteReality3 or InfiniteReality4 graphics

  • SGI Onyx 350 systems with InfinitePerformance graphics

  • SGI Onyx 350 systems with InfiniteReality3 or InfiniteReality4 graphics

  • Silicon Graphics Onyx2 systems with InfiniteReality2, InfiniteReality3, or InfiniteReality4 graphics

  • Silicon Graphics Octane or Octane2 systems

  • Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision systems

  • Silicon Graphics Fuel systems

  • Silicon Graphics Tezro systems

  • Silicon Graphics Prism systems

OpenGL Vizserver transmits rendered images over a high-speed data pipe, running OpenGL applications with large RGB datasets at up to 30 Hz. Using your local workstation, you can take advantage of any of the above mentioned servers without leaving your desk.

You can run a single-user session, where a single client user interacts with the application, or a collaborative session, where multiple client users can view and interact with applications in real time.

This user's guide consists the following:

Software Platforms

OpenGL Vizserver is supported on the following software platforms:

  • IRIX 6.5.11 or later

  • Red Hat Linux 8 or later

  • SUSE LINUX 9 or later

  • Fedora Core 2 or later

  • SGI ProPack

  • Solaris 2.6 or later

  • Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP

  • Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later

The images that illustrate this user's guide reflect snapshots taken on a Linux client. The shape and appearance of windows might vary from one platform to another, but the windows and options are the same.

Related Publications

The following document contains additional information that may be helpful:

  • SGI OpenGL Vizserver Administrator's Guide

  • SGI Scalable Graphics Compositor User's Guide

  • Silicon Graphics Scalable Graphics Capture PCI-X Option User's Guide

Obtaining Publications

You can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:

  • See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com . Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.

  • If it is installed on your SGI system, you can use InfoSearch, an online tool that provides a more limited set of online books, release notes, and man pages. With an IRIX system, select Help from the Toolchest, and then select InfoSearch. Or you can type infosearch on a command line.

  • On IRIX, you can also view release notes by typing either grelnotes or relnotes on a command line.

  • You can also view man pages by typing man <title> on a command line.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention

Meaning

command

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

function

This bold font indicates a function or method name. Parentheses are also appended to the name.

variable

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.)

[]

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

...

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

manpage(x)

Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.

GUI element

This font denotes the names of graphical user interface (GUI) elements such as windows, screens, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, icons, buttons, boxes, fields, and lists.


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