Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!slamont From: slamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Subject: Re: AVS Network Abstraction Message-ID: <4054@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 21 Nov 90 19:05:08 GMT References: Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA Lines: 23 In article jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes: >How many AVS ports are available? Are the ports close to the same >version as Stardent's current AVS or is there a substantial lag? It's >a shame that Stardent apparently isn't in too much of a hurry to see >AVS spread, at least not to SGIs. It would be their most important >compatible platform. Alas, yet another software schism. It (AVS) is available on an SGI platform (sort of). Convex supports it in a distributed mode, with a client running on a Convex box (or, I'd guess a Stardent, as well), and a server running on the SGI. The distributed version is (allegedly) supposed to use the SillyG graphics pipeline for rendering. I saw a demo a couple of days ago at Supercomputing `90 and it looked pretty good. spl (the p stands for pushing pixels for 0.5 decades) -- Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- 1882p@cc.nps.navy.mil -- a guest on network.ucsd.edu NPS Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943 What is truth and what is fable, where is Ruth and where is Mabel? - Director/producer John Amiel, heard on NPR