[osg-users] How OSG support multicard rendering

2007-08-16 Thread Lizheng
From <>,I know the OSG support multicard 
rendering,it is the feature I'm very interested,but I have below question:

- this feature need "SLI" of NVIDIA,or "CrossFire" of ATI?

- Is is support multi machine rendering?For instance, I had 5 computers with 
highspeed net connected,so can I dispatch OSG rendering frame1 in 
machine1,rendernig frame2 in machine?

- I want to see OSG how to implement MultiCard rendering,so from OSG source 
solution,which project or part I should read?Is there any documents to describe 
the tec it use?___
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Re: [osg-users] How OSG support multicard rendering

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Lizheng,

First up you need to split up the problem into single machine,
multiple CPU/GPU and clustering of machines.

The osgViewer library supports multiple CPU/GPU set ups out of the
box.  In fact in you run any of the examples it will be default querry
all the available displays and open up the view across all of them and
automatically run multiple threads/multiple contexts.

Doing SLI/CrossFire relies upon the graphics drivers being set up for
this type of rendering, it isn't really something the OSG can get
involved in.

The OSG doesn't not directly support clustering, there is a very
simple example osgcluster that illustrates how you might use UDP
packets to run a simple viewer across a network.  For more complete
solutions you need to look further afield to tools like Equalizer,
Vrjuggler etc.

Robert.
On 8/17/07, Lizheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> From <>,I know the OSG support
> multicard rendering,it is the feature I'm very interested,but I have below
> question:
>
> - this feature need "SLI" of NVIDIA,or "CrossFire" of ATI?
>
> - Is is support multi machine rendering?For instance, I had 5 computers with
> highspeed net connected,so can I dispatch OSG rendering frame1 in
> machine1,rendernig frame2 in machine?
>
> - I want to see OSG how to implement MultiCard rendering,so from OSG source
> solution,which project or part I should read?Is there any documents to
> describe the tec it use?
> ___
> osg-users mailing list
> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org
> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
>
>
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