[Vis5d-users] Re: Vis5d UNIX -> X-server on PC/Windows?

Bill Hibbard writes:
>   If your graphics card offer hardware accelerated OpenGL you
>   may want to try out Hummingbird Exceed 3D:
>   (http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html)
>   This is a commercial X-Server software with OpenGL extensions.
> 
>   First of all: it works.

Adding to Bill's comments, the Hummingbird solution really can work
quite nicely. I've run it over 100BTX from our Onyx2 to an SGI320/NT
system as well as various IBM thinkpads, all with good success. I've
observed 200K+ tris/sec sustained performance with the 320. Of course,
in this mode all of the geometry is flowing over the wire and eventually
that saturates things. I've worked on my NT box in my office on
some pretty large projects without suffering unduly (eventually
one treks to the Onyx2 console 'tho ;-). One example:

	http://www.scd.ucar.edu/vg/CAT

On very large datasets I've occasionally observed instability in the Exceed
X server but could never pin it down enough to file a report. YMMV.

don