Say I want to run a server on a PC, but have the graphics rendered on a linux machine. Has anyone got a cross platform environment such as this to work? Are there any endian issues?
Thanks!
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Not sure what you mean here. A "PC" and a "Linux machine" can be (and often are) one and the same. Do you mean that your "server PC" will be running Windows? Also, the hardware architecture, not the OS, defines endian orientation, so running an app on a Windows box rendering on Linux nodes doesn't encounter problems there. Not sure if Chromium itself abstracts the byte-ordering, though. You might have endian issues if your app was running, say, on an SGI. Don't know, haven't been there yet.
I'm rendering beautifully from one Linux app node to four Linux tiles. Haven't gotten the Win-to-Lin version working yet. Hints are that it'll work but I've seen post traffic where others have encountered similar problems to mine. No solution yet for me. Would love to hear if you get it working.
Bill
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2003-05-14
oh yeah, sorry about that. One computer (the server) has an Intel processor running Windows. The other computer (the client) is a Playstation2 (running linux). I believe the ps2 has a MIPS architecture.
Irwin
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Not sure about the PS/2 architecture either but if it is MIPS then you're right, you might have endian issues. I don't know if Chromium abstracts that or not (but I'd think it likely it would).
Best of luck. Your application sounds interesting.
Bill
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Say I want to run a server on a PC, but have the graphics rendered on a linux machine. Has anyone got a cross platform environment such as this to work? Are there any endian issues?
Thanks!
Not sure what you mean here. A "PC" and a "Linux machine" can be (and often are) one and the same. Do you mean that your "server PC" will be running Windows? Also, the hardware architecture, not the OS, defines endian orientation, so running an app on a Windows box rendering on Linux nodes doesn't encounter problems there. Not sure if Chromium itself abstracts the byte-ordering, though. You might have endian issues if your app was running, say, on an SGI. Don't know, haven't been there yet.
I'm rendering beautifully from one Linux app node to four Linux tiles. Haven't gotten the Win-to-Lin version working yet. Hints are that it'll work but I've seen post traffic where others have encountered similar problems to mine. No solution yet for me. Would love to hear if you get it working.
Bill
oh yeah, sorry about that. One computer (the server) has an Intel processor running Windows. The other computer (the client) is a Playstation2 (running linux). I believe the ps2 has a MIPS architecture.
Irwin
Not sure about the PS/2 architecture either but if it is MIPS then you're right, you might have endian issues. I don't know if Chromium abstracts that or not (but I'd think it likely it would).
Best of luck. Your application sounds interesting.
Bill