Re: [VirtualGL-Users] Client-side profiling data

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Paul Melis wrote:
> It's all over internal LANs, but there are security measures in place.
> Latency should not be a problem, I get a 0.2 ms ping time from server to
> client.

But you're able to use TurboVNC?  Or are you tunneling that through SSh
as well?


> I was comparing vnc against VGL transport. Being able to run an
> application with remote rendering as if it was running locally is quite
> nice. But in the end I'll probably go for VNC as that is usable from
> Windows as well (although there is Exceed, of course).

Yes, that is pretty much the only functional drawback of TurboVNC (no
seamless windows.)  I dream of a high-performance X proxy that supports
remote stereo and seamless windows and isn't based on VNC.

I'd settle for an open source X server on Windows that performed even
half as well as Exceed.  Such does not exist.  Cygwin/X is the closest
contender but still does not provide nearly the performance with MIT-SHM
that VirtualGL needs, nor does it support hardware-accelerated stereo
OpenGL drawing.