This guide describes OpenGL Multipipe SDK (MPK), which is a software development toolkit (SDK) that allows you to adapt your graphics applications to run in immersive environments and to take advantage of the scalability provided by multiple pipes and other scalable graphics hardware.
This guide targets application programmers. It describes how application programmers can adapt OpenGL graphics applications to fit the MPK programming model. The manual SGI OpenGL Multipipe SDK User's Guide targets Reality Center administrators, who configure graphics applications to run in multipipe environments.
The following books might be helpful:
SGI OpenGL Multipipe SDK User's Guide
SGI OpenGL Multipipe SDK Programmer's Reference Pages
Neider, Jackie,Tom Davis, and Mason Woo, OpenGL Programming Guide. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1993. A comprehensive guide to learning OpenGL.
Nye, Adrian, Volume One: Xlib Programming Manual. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991.
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