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OpenGL commands sent over the network can be executed on the local graphics card via GLX.
by sprash 13y ago
OpenGL commands sent over the network can be executed on the local graphics card via GLX.
- Someone 13y agoAnd that, for instance, means that your simulation running on a huge CPU cluster that does not even have a GPU can run interactive graphics on your desktop GPU. I am not sure whether that still is a big advantage nowadays, as the typical cluster is fast enough to do OpenGL in software, but 20 years or so ago, this was a big issue, as that huge cluster might have been a 4 CPU, 2 GB, 100 MHz machine, if you were lucky.