<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Dear all,</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We have an interesting set of presentations for the Equalizer BOF next week. In particular, integration with OpenSceneGraph is a hot topic these days, with one presentation and a strong interest in discussions about it.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please have a look at the full agenda below.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I hope to see you all in a week,</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Stefan.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><<a href="http://www.equalizergraphics.com/news/EgBof.html">http://www.equalizergraphics.com/news/EgBof.html</a>></div></span> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; "><p style="text-align: justify; ">We will be holding an Equalizer Birds-Of-a-Feather meeting during <a href="http://www.eurographics2009.de/" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: bold; ">Eurographics'09</a> - mark your calendars:</p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Place: Eurographics 2009, TU Munich<br>Date: Tuesday, March 31, 15:00-16:30<br>Room: MI 02.13.010<br></p><p style="text-align: justify; ">Co-located with EG is the <a href="http://www.egpgv.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold; ">Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization</a>, so there is yet another good reason to come to Munich!</p><h2 style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.2em; ">Schedule</h2><ul><li><b>15:00-15:20</b> Equalizer: Past, Present and Future, Stefan Eilemann, Eyescale Software GmbH</li><li><b>15:20-15:40</b> Virtual Architecture with Equalizer and OpenSceneGraph, Julia Sigmund, University of Siegen</li><li><b>15:40-16:00</b> Performance Optimizations for Image Compositing, Renato Pajarola, University of Zurich</li><li><b>16:00-16:30</b> Questions and Answers, Open Discussion</li></ul><div class="flush_float" style="clear: both; "></div><table><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 0.5ex; padding-right: 0.5ex; padding-bottom: 0.5ex; padding-left: 0.5ex; "><h3>Equalizer: Past, Present and Future</h3><div class="float_right" style="float: right; "><img alt="Layout API" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " height="122" width="204" src="cid:7C1E06CC-2716-4239-AD0A-CC87E61DA2CC@neode.ch"></div><p style="text-align: justify; ">In this presentation we will provide an overview of the roots, current state and future work on the Equalizer parallel rendering framework. Hot new features, e.g., dynamic frame resolution and the layout API will receive special attention.</p></td><td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 0.5ex; padding-right: 0.5ex; padding-bottom: 0.5ex; padding-left: 0.5ex; "><h3>Virtual Architecture with Equalizer and OpenSceneGraph</h3><div class="float_right" style="float: right; "><img alt="Virtual Architecture with Equalizer and OpenSceneGraph" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " height="117" width="204" src="cid:6D7CDF25-0C71-44A6-AA63-1115CF5F296B@neode.ch"></div><p style="text-align: justify; ">In the context of a project work for virtual architecture we combined Equalizer and OpenSceneGraph. Special consideration was given to the flexibility of the parallel rendering capabilities. The presentation reviews the synthesis of Equalizer and OpenSceneGraph for our virtual reality environment.</p></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 0.5ex; padding-right: 0.5ex; padding-bottom: 0.5ex; padding-left: 0.5ex; "><h3>Performance Optimizations for Image Compositing</h3><p style="text-align: justify; ">We will briefly review the current performance bottlenecks in Equalizer and provide some preliminary information on our research to eliminate the major issues.</p></td><td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 0.5ex; padding-right: 0.5ex; padding-bottom: 0.5ex; padding-left: 0.5ex; "><h3>Q&A, Open Discussion</h3><p style="text-align: justify; ">A relaxed get-together for current and future Equalizer developers. We encourage an open exchange of ideas, current and futures usage around Equalizer and other parallel rendering software. Getting to know each other and finding synergies between different parallel rendering applications is the other objective for this meeting.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></body></html>