This document is intended for system administrators and gives information about installing, configuring, tuning, and troubleshooting OpenGL Vizserver. Using OpenGL Vizserver, you can run graphics applications on another system and OpenGL Vizserver serves the resulting graphics to your client machine. You can also use OpenGL Vizserver in conjunction with other products like QuickTransit for Silicon Graphics. QuickTransit allows you to transparently run applications compiled for IRIX MIPS platforms. Hence, QuickTransit greatly augments the number of applications you can run on Silicon Graphics Prism servers.
OpenGL Vizserver consists of client and server modules.
The OpenGL Vizserver server module requires one of the following system types:
SGI Onyx 3000 series with InfiniteReality3 or InfiniteReality4 graphics
SGI Onyx 300 systems with InfiniteReality3 or InfiniteReality4 graphics
SGI Onyx 350 systems with InfiniteReality3 or InfiniteReality4 graphics
Silicon Graphics Onyx2 systems with InfiniteReality2, InfiniteReality3, or InfiniteReality4 graphics
A server module must have one of the following operating systems installed:
OpenGL Vizserver supports clients running the following software platforms:
The following documents contain additional information that may be helpful:
SGI OpenGL Vizserver User's Guide
Performance Co-Pilot User's and Administrator's Guide
IRIX Admin: Networking and Mail
IRIX Admin: Software Iinstallation and Licensing
SGI ProPack for Linux Start Here
SGI Scalable Graphics Compositor User's Guide
Silicon Graphics Scalable Graphics Capture PCI-X Option User's Guide
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