Re: [Chromium-users] Modern Chromium

[Brock P. <br...@um...>]

Good to know that SAGE might have the same functionality as Chromium  
with unmodified Apps, I will check it out more.

Our need to support ISV packages is very important, thus modification  
of apps (other than replacing libGL.so or similar) is not an option.

Brock Palen
www.umich.edu/~brockp
Center for Advanced Computing
br...@um...
(734)936-1985



On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Andres Felipe Molina Villamizar wrote:

> Can't say much on Chromium, but if I'm mistaken it supports up to  
> OpenGL
> 1.5. I've run into some trouble running apps that use OpenGL 1.8/2.0
> features myself.
>
> As for SAGE, I was actually reading about it today, and they offer  
> an OpenGL
> wrapper that's supposed to be able to run OpenGL apps without any
> modification. Additionally, they also have some information on how  
> to modify
> (ever so slightly) applications in order for them to work on SAGE.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Andres
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brock Palen [mailto:br...@um...]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:39 PM
> To: chr...@li...
> Subject: [Chromium-users] Modern Chromium
>
> I have inherited a 4x4 tile wall that was built (hardware) and has
> linux loaded but no software.
>
> Now I know DMX is part of Xorg now, but what is the state of
> chromium? The last update on SF is 2006. Does it even work on
> RHEL5 ?  This is my first tiled display, is there a successor to
> Chromium I should be looking at?
>
> I see the Rocks Viz roll provides Chromium and SAGE. I like Chromium
> because of ability to run unmodified applications. Our apps would be
> matlab, visit, paraview (maybe), and another handful of engineering
> apps,  (Fluent, AbaqusCAE, Comsol).  Most of these were built without
> a tiled display in mind (paraview? is the only one aware?) thus I
> liked this feature of Chromium.
>
> Does Chromium support the updates to OpenGL?  Latest data I found was
> OpenGL 1.5.  Is this a problem with newer apps?
>
> Please direct me for what research I should do to understand the
> options.
> is it true SAGE requires modified apps?
>
> Oh and is the TG Threaded Mothership still available? I can't find it
> on their website. Is it even needed?
>
> Brock Palen
> www.umich.edu/~brockp
> Center for Advanced Computing
> br...@um...
> (734)936-1985
>
>
>
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