Tungsten Graphics Announces Phase I STTR Contract Award by Department of Energy, Chromium RenderServer: Remote and Collaborative Rendering and Visualization with Distributed Memory Parallel Clusters
Through funding provided by Department of Energy (DOE) Tungsten Graphics is developing the Chromium RenderServer. The project team for this Phase I project is: Brian Paul, Tungsten Graphics, Inc. (Principal Investigator), Randall Frank and Sean Ahern, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, E. Wes Bethel, R3vis Corporation, Greg Humphreys, Ahpah Software, and the University of Virginia
Cedar Park, TX (PRWEB) July 16, 2004 -- Tungsten Graphics, inc., premiere
provider of Graphics infrastructure software and services announced today, Phase
I STTR Contract Award by Department of Energy, Chromium RenderServer: Remote and
Collaborative Rendering and Visualization with Distributed Memory Parallel
Clusters.
Through funding provided by Department of Energy (DOE) Tungsten
Graphics is developing the Chromium RenderServer. The project team for this
Phase I project is: Brian Paul, Tungsten Graphics, Inc. (Principal
Investigator), Randall Frank and Sean Ahern, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, E. Wes Bethel, R3vis Corporation, Greg Humphreys, Ahpah Software,
and the University of Virginia
Our work, called the Chromium RenderServer
aims to provide remote users with network-based access to interactive visual
data analysis capabilities located at central computing facilities; 3D
scientific visualization is performed in parallel on interactive resources
located at central facilities ?close to? the data, and the resulting imagery is
transmitted over the network to one or more remote users. By design, the
Chromium RenderServer allows any existing visualization application that meet a
minimum set of technical criteria to be deployed in a remote fashion, and
enables rapid deployment of a new generation of high performance remote
visualization applications.
An important part of this development effort
is Chromium. Chromium is a flexible framework for scalable real time rendering
on clusters of workstations, derived from the Stanford WireGL project. A
Chromium system allows clusters of low cost, high performance, commodity
computer hardware and graphics accelerators to be linked together over high
speed networks in a scalable architecture. Although many OpenGL applications
will run unmodified as distributed applications in a Chromium system, it?s often
the case that customizations are needed to fully take advantage of Chromium.
About Tungsten Graphics
Tungsten Graphics Inc. (TG) is a graphics
software consulting company that develops state of the art graphics and open
infrastructure solutions running on Linux, FreeBSD, and other operating systems.
TG was founded by Brian Paul (owner and principal author of Mesa), Frank
LaMonica (former CEO of Precision Insight), Jens Owen (founding partner and
former engineering manager of Precision Insight), and Keith Whitwell (senior
engineer and major contributor to Mesa.)
TG has established itself as a
premier consulting organization, providing vendor neutral development and world
renowned software architectural leadership. Major clients include corporations
such as Intel, General Dynamics, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Red Hat, and
The Weather Channel. Our team members have consistently demonstrated the
commitment and ability to do whatever is required to bring projects to
successful completion.
As a recognized contributor to many open source
projects, TG has a proven track record of developing technology that has become
standard in the industry. TG is an active participant in many graphics
initiatives, including XFree86, Mesa, DRI, Chromium, and VNC. As a result, we
can assure our clients that software we develop will integrate seamlessly into
our client's open or proprietary systems, and all existing open source
technologies.
Technical excellence, highly refined management skills,
and unfaltering commitment, combined with the highest ethical and business
standards make Tungsten Graphics a trusted partner for any serious project.
For more information please see www.tungstengraphics.com
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