Remote visualization

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Contents 1 SAGE 2 Virtual GL 3 CGLX 4 Microsoft Remote Desktop

SAGE

Render on a cluster, stream pixles to any size display or tile of displays (a display wall)

• http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage/
• Byung-il Jeong, Luc Renambot and Jason Leigh

Virtual GL

Use hardware graphics acceleration on the server and display using VNC.

• Wikipedia:VirtualGL
• http://www.virtualgl.org/
• TurboVNC client
• TurboVNC page at NCAR

CGLX

... "intercept and interpret OpenGL calls and to provide a distributed large scale OpenGL context on a tiled display"

• OpenGL programs can be adapted to run with CGLX.
• http://vis.ucsd.edu/~cglx/

Microsoft Remote Desktop

• Both server and client are available also for Linux and Mac.