Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!eos!data.nas.nasa.gov!eagle!news From: tttron@escher.lerc.nasa.gov (William Krauss) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Subject: Re: AVS Network Abstraction Message-ID: <1990Nov28.184052.2409@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Date: 28 Nov 90 18:40:52 GMT References: <4054@network.ucsd.edu> <1990Nov23.174301.24230@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <1990Nov28.165621.1640@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: tttron@escher.UUCP (William Krauss) Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland Lines: 43 Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Subject: Re: AVS Network Abstraction Summary: Expires: References: <4054@network.ucsd.edu> <1990Nov23.174301.24230@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Sender: Reply-To: tttron@escher.UUCP (William Krauss) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland Keywords: Sorry about that last post, folks! Take two: In article <1990Nov23.174301.24230@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> fsfacca@ZoSo.UUCP (Tony Facca) writes: >Maybe not. Convex actually diddled the AVS code to take advantage of DGL. I >had heard that Stardent was reluctant to license AVS to SGI but Convex was >able to get a license for both DGL and AVS, so they ended up doing the port to >SGI. I saw it at AUTOFACT and it looked good. Convex also had an 8 bit X >version running on the Iris. The rendering was done by the 220 and the bitmaps >sent to the Iris. Not too-too shabby either. It caught my eye (ouch!) at SIGGRAPH this year. We have DGL here running from a Convex 220 to an Iris that also has an UltraNet path, which allows us VERY high speed graphics data transfer (there is no distinction between a GL application running resident on an Iris versus a DGL application from the Convex to a server Iris - this of course also depends upon the application itself). The possibility of running AVS from the Convex to a server Iris via the UltraNet is very intriguing to us. Stay tuned... -- >>>>> William D. Krauss NASA Lewis Research Center <<<<< >>>>> tttron@escher.lerc.nasa.gov Cleveland, OH 44135 <<<<< >>>>> (216) 433-8720 (or -8798) U.S.A. Earth <<<<<