Chromium remote graphics processor for macbook

Hi,

Thanks.  That was pretty much as I expected.  The Portable is a Macbook with
dual core processor and 2 Gb memory (and GigE), but terrible graphics.

Another idea I have is to be able to use my macbook as normal, but when
running 3D graphics, have the OpenGl commands sent out to a rendering PC on
my network and the results put back into the OpenGL window on the macbook
seamlessly. (ie basically using an external graphics processor to compensate
for the rather bad graphics capabilities of the macbook).  I think, from
what I have read, that this is in principle possible, though whether it can
be done to appear seamless is a question.


Regards, Roy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Houston [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:04 AM
> To: Roy C. Davies
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Chromium-users] Chromium usage query
> 
> This is pretty much exactly what Chromium is designed to do.  Intercept
> GL calls and send to a tiled display.  A VR environment, especially a
> CAVE, is a little more difficult and my not work with applications that
> do few frustum culling in software (Quake for example).  You just need
> to setup the tiles and the view frustum for each tile.  Integrated
> graphics in the laptop won't matter unless you are doing actual
> rendering there.  The biggest performance problem is likely to be the
> network connection, you'll want at least 100Mbps and probably GigE if
> possible, and the laptop processor speed since it has to pack the GL
> calls and do frustum calculations for the tiles.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -Mike
> 
> Roy C. Davies wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Forgive my innocence, but I have just come across Chromium, and I was
> >wondering if it could be used in the following manner:
> >
> >I have a PC cluster for VR graphics rendering, 4 computers, one to each
> >screen in a large CAVE-like environment.  Each of these has an NVIDIA
> Quadro
> >4500 card.
> >
> >I have a portable PC with integrated graphics chip.
> >
> >I want to be able to connect my portable into the local network for the
> >cluster and have it direct the graphics rendering on the cluster.
> Ideally,
> >the PC cluster should in effect become the display for the portable with
> the
> >portable screen being just blank.
> >
> >Would this work?  Would it be a good way to do things?  Would the
> graphics
> >rendering on the cluster suffer for the integrated graphics chip on the
> >portable (I intend not to have any graphics output on the portable).
> >
> >Regards, Roy Davies.
> >
> >-------------------
> >
> >Dr Roy C. Davies,
> >
> >VR Consultant, Flexible Reality Studio,
> >Auckland, New Zealand.
> >http://www.flexstudio.co.nz
> >
> >Coordinator for RE-FLEX,
> >flexible reality centre,
> >Lund University, Sweden.
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> >
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