This guide describes the OpenGL Multipipe product, which allows you to run single-pipe applications in a multipipe environment without modification. You can seamlessly move single-pipe application windows across the single logical display that OpenGL Multipipe creates from multiple pipes. Both multipipe applications and single-pipe applications run concurrently.
The following SGI documents contain additional information that may be helpful:
SGI Scalable Graphics Compositor User's Guide
SGI ProPack for Linux Start Here
Performance Co-Pilot for IA-64 Linux User's and Administrator's Guide
These books might also be helpful:
Dave Shreiner, OpenGL Architecture Review Board, Mason Woo, Jackie Neider and Tom Davis. OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 1.4. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-321-17348-1.
Nye, Adrian, Volume One: Xlib Programming Manual. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1992.
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