Dirk Reiners wrote: > Hi Allen, Dirk, Allen,
Nice to see you picked up the news. :) I just stumbled upon this thread on the web. I am the main developer on Equalizer, please allow me to add my 2 cents. > > Allen Bierbaum wrote: > > I just saw this link on opengl.org. > > > > http://www.equalizergraphics.com/index.html > > > > It looks like it is mean to be an open source successor to SGI's > > Multipipe SDK (the developer was one of the leads at SGI). > > > > Has anyone here used it? Is it purely orthogonal to OpenSG or > could it > > be combined in useful ways? Imo it is mostly orthogonal to OpenSG. Equalizer has a generic parallel rendering API, which might be used by OpenSG, among other applications. An integration of OpenSG and Equalizer has a number of advantages in: - Integration: When running several Equalizer applications concurrently, where some use OpenSG, the server will be able to do resource management between them. - Configuration: Single point of configuration for users - Features: some of the functionalities implemented for other applications will be beneficial for OpenSG-based applications. Honestly I haven't looked into what features OpenSG already provides, and which are also in Equalizer. From previous experience there is however a lot to be gained from having a scene graph for scalable rendering, esp. when it comes to load balancing and efficient data distribution. > > it might be useful to handle Window setup for multipipe runs, which is > always a pain. I haven't looked into what it takes to use it with > OpenSG. Anybody wants to try? A distributed scene graph based on Equalizer is on my radar, but the priority is currently not high enough that I will realistically get around to do this in the near future. That said, I am happy to help out where needed. Ideally somebody familiar with OpenSG could take on this job, and I can give advice when it comes to Equalizer. Dirk - do you know somebody? Cheers, Stefan. -- http://www.equalizergraphics.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/eilemann ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users
