Feature List

Table of Contents

Platform Support
Virtual Reality Features
Scalable Rendering Features
3D Rendering Features
Examples
Tools and Utility Functions

The version label references the Equalizer version introducing the feature. Features labeled 'svn' are in the subversion development repository and will most likely be released in the next version.

Platform Support

• 0.3
  Windows XP ia32 and x86_64
• 0.1
  Linux ia32, x86_64, ia64, X11/glX
• 0.4
  Discontinued Linux ia64 support
• 0.9.1
  Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5 Universal, X11/glX, Carbon/AGL support
• TBD
  Mac OS X Universal, Cocoa/NSGL
• 0.5
  Discontinued Mac OS X 10.4 support
• 0.4
  Introduced Mac OS X Carbon/AGL support
• 0.4
  Discontinued Mac OS X CGL support
• 0.1
  Introduced Max OS X 10.4, 10.5, X11/glX, CGL (partial)

Virtual Reality Features

• 0.1
  Support for shared memory multi-GPU systems
• 0.1
  Support for distributed memory GPU clusters
• 0.1
  Active and passive stereo rendering
• 0.3
  Anaglyphic stereo rendering
• 0.1
  Head tracking for immersive installations
• 0.9
  HMD support
• 0.9
  Multiple observers in immersive environments
• 0.1
  Software swapbarrier for synchronization of multiple displays
• 0.9
  Hardware swapbarrier for synchronization of multiple displays
• TBD
  Software edge blending

Scalable Rendering Features

Decomposition Modes

• 0.2
  Sort-first (2D) compounds
• 0.2
  Sort-last (DB) compounds
• 0.2
  Eye (stereo) compounds
• 0.5
  Pixel compounds
• 0.6
  DPlex (time-multiplex) compounds
• 0.9.1
  Subpixel (FSAA, DOF) compounds
• 0.2
  Hierarchical, multi-level compounds
• TBD
  Cull compounds

Compositing Features

• 0.2
  Flexible, parallel compositing engine
• 0.2
  Image compression for network transfers
• 0.9
  Compression plug-in API
• TBD
  GPU-based image compression
• 0.6
  Paracomp compositing backend
• TBD
  Fast node-local composition using NV_copy_image extension
• TBD
  nVidia CompleX compositing backend
• TBD
  Hardware-based recomposition (Crossfire, SLI)
• TBD
  Asynchronous framebuffer readback
• TBD
  ROI readback interface

Load-Balancing

• 0.6
  Per-segment 2D and DB load-balancing
• 0.9
  Cross-segment load-balancing
• TBD
  Cross-view resource load-balancing
• TBD
  Cross-application resource load-balancing

3D Rendering Features

• 0.2
  Dynamic near and far plane support
• 0.6
  Orthographic frustum support
• 0.9
  Canvas and layout API
• 0.9
  Application-specified frusta for destination views
• 0.3
  Nonthreaded rendering for non-threadsafe UI toolkits
• 0.5
  PBuffer support
• 0.9
  FBO support
• 0.9.1
  Support for applications not using OpenGL for rendering
• TBD
  OpenGL 3 compositing and example
• TBD
  Runtime mono/stereo switching
• TBD
  Advanced support for transparency and sort-last (DB) compounds
• TBD
  Transparent OpenGL library (Chromium?)
• TBD
  Remote visualization (VNC, SAGE?)
• TBD
  Distributed scene graph: OpenSceneGraph, OpenSG, Coin

Clustering Features

• 0.3
  Distributed object API
• 0.9.1
  Multicast data distribution and synchronization
• 0.3
  Resident render clients
• 0.3
  InfiniBand networking
• TBD
  Native InfiniBand RDMA connection
• 0.3
  Standalone application support
• TBD
  Multiple applications in a single cluster
• TBD
  Node failure handling

Examples

• 0.1
  eqPly polygonal rendering demo
• 0.4
  eVolve volume renderer
• 0.4
  eqHello Hello, World! example
• 0.9
  OpenSceneGraph rendering application
• TBD
  Molecular viewer (Molekel, VMD?)
• TBD
  Medical viewer (Osirix?)

Tools and Utility Functions

• 0.2
  Statistics overlay for performance analysis
• 0.3
  OpenGL object manager