Features

Table of Contents

Platform Support
Virtual Reality Features
Scalable Rendering Features
3D Rendering Features
Examples
Tools and Utility Functions

The version label references the Equalizer version introducing the feature. Features labeled 'git' are in the git development repository and will most likely be released in the next version.

Platform Support

• 0.3
  Windows 7 and XP, ia32 and x86_64
• 0.9.2
  Introduced Windows 7 support
• 0.1
  Linux ia32, x86_64, X11/glX
• 0.4
  Discontinued Linux ia64 support
• 0.9.1
  Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5 Universal, X11/glX, Carbon/AGL support
• TBD
  Mac OS X Universal, Cocoa/NSGL
• 0.9.1
  Introduced Mac OS X 10.6 support
• 0.5
  Discontinued Mac OS X 10.4 support
• 0.4
  Introduced Mac OS X Carbon/AGL support
• 0.4
  Discontinued Mac OS X CGL support
• 0.1
  Introduced Max OS X 10.4, 10.5, X11/glX, CGL (partial)

Virtual Reality Features

• 0.1
  Support for shared memory multi-GPU systems
• 0.1
  Support for distributed memory GPU clusters
• 0.1
  Active and passive stereo rendering
• 0.3
  Anaglyphic stereo rendering
• 0.1
  Head tracking for immersive installations
• 0.9
  HMD support
• 0.9
  Multiple observers in immersive environments
• 1.2
  Dynamic focus distance for arbitrary focal plane.
• 1.6
  Asymmetric eye position
• 0.1
  Software swapbarrier for synchronization of multiple displays
• 0.9
  Hardware swapbarrier for synchronization of multiple displays
• 0.9.2
  Runtime stereo switching
• 1.4
  Application-specific scaling to visualize data in a scale different to 1:1
• TBD
  Software edge blending

Scalable Rendering Features

Configuration

• 0.1
  Static configuration using an ASCII file
• 1.1.7
  Automatic configuration of Multi-GPU workstations
• 1.1.7
  Automatic configuration and discovery of remote scalability GPUs
• TBD
  Automatic configuration and discovery of remote display surfaces

Decomposition Modes

• 0.2
  Sort-first (2D) compounds
• 0.2
  Sort-last (DB) compounds
• 0.2
  Eye (stereo) compounds
• 0.5
  Pixel compounds
• 0.6
  DPlex (time-multiplex) compounds
• 0.9.1
  Subpixel (FSAA, DOF) compounds
• 0.2
  Hierarchical, multi-level compounds
• 1.2
  Tile compounds
• TBD
  Cull compounds

Compositing Features

• 0.2
  Flexible, parallel compositing engine
• 0.2
  Image compression for network transfers
• 0.9
  CPU Compression plugin API
• 0.9.2
  GPU Compression plugin API
• 1.4
  Asynchronous framebuffer readback
• 1.4
  ROI readback interface
• 0.6
  Paracomp compositing backend
• TBD
  Fast node-local composition using NV_copy_image extension
• TBD
  nVidia CompleX compositing backend

Load-Balancing

• 0.6
  Per-segment 2D and DB load-balancing
• 0.9
  Cross-segment load-balancing
• TBD
  Cross-view resource load-balancing
• TBD
  Cross-application resource load-balancing

3D Rendering Features

• 0.2
  Dynamic near and far plane support
• 0.6
  Orthographic frustum support
• 0.9
  Canvas and layout API
• 0.9
  Application-specified frusta for destination views
• 1.6
  Application-specified frusta for segments
• 0.3
  Nonthreaded rendering for non-threadsafe UI toolkits
• 0.5
  PBuffer support
• 0.9
  FBO support
• 0.9.1
  Support for applications not using OpenGL for rendering
• 1.0
  Runtime mono/stereo switching
• TBD
  OpenGL 3 compositing and example
• TBD
  Advanced support for transparency and sort-last (DB) compounds
• TBD
  Transparent OpenGL library (Chromium?)
• TBD
  Remote visualization (VirtualGL, VNC, SAGE?)
• TBD
  Distributed scene graph: OpenSceneGraph, OpenSG, Coin

Cluster Features

• 0.3
  Distributed object API
• 0.9.1
  Multicast data distribution and synchronization
• 0.9.2
  Slave object commits
• 0.9.2
  Automatic compression of distributed object data
• 0.3
  Resident render clients
• 0.3
  InfiniBand networking
• 1.1.7
  RDMA (native InfiniBand) connection
• 1.1.7
  Linux
• 1.6
  Windows
• 0.9.2
  Failure tolerance during initialization
• 1.1.7
  Runtime failure tolerance
• 1.4
  Zeroconf support and node discovery

Examples

• 0.1
  eqPly polygonal rendering demo
• 0.4
  eVolve volume renderer
• 0.4
  eqHello Hello, World! example
• 0.9
  OpenSceneGraph rendering application
• TBD
  Molecular viewer (Molekel, VMD?)
• TBD
  Medical viewer (Osirix?)

Tools and Utility Functions

• 0.2
  Statistics overlay for performance analysis
• 0.3
  OpenGL object manager
• 0.9.2
  Administrative API