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Solaris support for High Performance Visualization in Scalable Viz 1.1

We've just released the Scalable Visualization 1.1 Solutions with support for Solaris 10 and Suse 10, as well as Red Hat 4 and 5.
Lots of other exciting updates as well - support for new Sun platforms like the Intel-based quad-core SunFire x4150 and x4450 servers,
and 10GbE interconnect as well as InfiniBand, and support for the latest nVIDIA graphics products including the Quadro Plex Model S4 with 4 GPUs in a 1U box.

The Scalable Visualization Solution is a completely integrated (tested and tuned) hardware and software stack. Pick your favorite high-performance systems and graphics devices, and choose how many of each, and your favorite OS (which should be Solaris, of course). We've just installed one of our first Scalable Viz 1.1 installations at a customer site in the UK - an octagonal display configuration with 10 GbE interconnect between the nodes. This should be a really fun site to visit!

Posted at 06:31PM Apr 04, 2008 by Linda Fellingham in Sun  |  Comments[1]

Announcing the release of Shared Visualization 1.1 software

Sun Shared Visualization 1.1 software is, at long last, ready for download on the Sun DownLoad Center.
Some people wear ties everyday or don't cut their hair, until a milestone is met, but I just stopped writing in my blog until I could say that Sun Shared Visualization 1.1 is ready for download at http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=465f0f01

So, why am I so excited about Shared Visualization 1.1? We got a lot of feedback from our original release of Shared Viz that it was really cool that one could now run high performance 3D graphics applications from Sun Rays and laptops, BUT it was a pain to install and configure. The combination of trying to maintain security while achieving performance meant that a LOT of complex configuration had to be done on the server and using it from the client wasn't completely straightforward. Our main goal for Shared Viz 1.1 was to make installation, configuration, and start-up simple and bullet-proof. I think we've got it! We've finally got it!

Shared Viz 1.1 is based on VirtualGL 2.1.

Posted at 06:12PM Apr 04, 2008 by Linda Fellingham in Sun  |  Comments[1]