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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 01:18 PM

Hi All,

Having been critical of the situation where Solaris x86 is the poor
relation running on the Opteron workstations when it comes to HW
accelarated OpenGL, I'm happy to report that according to a press
release today, Sun and Nvidia have partnered to tune and optimise
OpenGL running on Nvidia Quadro cards in the w1100z and w2100z and
future workstations. Nifty.

Chris
--
Chris Morgan
"Post posting of policy changes by the boss will result in
real rule revisions that are irreversible"

- anonymous correspondent

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 01:18 PM

In article <86ekk4janp.fsf@elrond.bloomberg.com>,
Chris Morgan <cm@mihalis.net> wrote:
> accelarated OpenGL, I'm happy to report that according to a press
> release today, Sun and Nvidia have partnered to tune and optimise

<URL:http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_16275.html>
| Sun's long-standing presence in the workstation market, now coupled
| with optimization of the Solaris OS for AMD Opteron systems and
| NVIDIA's graphics expertise, enables the two companies to drive new
| joint opportunities with a strong price/performance advantage.
| Together, Sun and NVIDIA will target customers in graphics and compute
| intensive markets such as Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Defense, CAD/CAM,
| EDA, Financial Services, Professional DCC (Digital Content Creation)
| and Software Engineering. By leveraging Sun's sales organization and
| network of channel partners, NVIDIA now has greater access to the
| industry ecosystem needed to extend its reach with Sun solutions
| targeted at these market segments.

John
groenveld@acm.org

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 01:18 PM

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Chris Morgan wrote:

> Having been critical of the situation where Solaris x86 is the poor
> relation running on the Opteron workstations when it comes to HW
> accelarated OpenGL, I'm happy to report that according to a press
> release today, Sun and Nvidia have partnered to tune and optimise
> OpenGL running on Nvidia Quadro cards in the w1100z and w2100z and
> future workstations. Nifty.

Excellent news. Another nail in the penguin's coffin... :-)

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 01:18 PM

Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Chris Morgan wrote:
>
> > Having been critical of the situation where Solaris x86 is the poor
> > relation running on the Opteron workstations when it comes to HW
> > accelarated OpenGL, I'm happy to report that according to a press
> > release today, Sun and Nvidia have partnered to tune and optimise
> > OpenGL running on Nvidia Quadro cards in the w1100z and w2100z and
> > future workstations. Nifty.
>
> Excellent news. Another nail in the penguin's coffin... :-)

That's a fairly feeble nail, as Linux already has Nvidia's proprietary
binary only driver modules for their cards, and has done for several
years now. The performance is pretty amazing (and massively better
than nvidia hardware performance with any open-source drive solution).

Chris
--
Chris Morgan
"Post posting of policy changes by the boss will result in
real rule revisions that are irreversible"

- anonymous correspondent

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