HP Scalable Visualization Array (SVA) Software SVA Visualization System Software Reference Guide

•Main software components provided by HP (Table 3-3).

•Main software components provided by third parties (Table 3-4).

•Application development tools available on the SVA (Table 3-5).

Table 3-3 HP SVA System Software

Software	Description
Visualization System Software (VSS)	Collection of various categories, including:
SVA Visualization System Software Reference Guide	• Data Access Functions that permit an application to access and use
	the Configuration Data Files for job allocation and launch.

HP Remote Graphics Software http://www.hp.com/workstations/software/remote/

•Command syntax for job launch scripts commands.

Transmits 2D and 3D images across standard computer networks to remote users.

(optional)

Table 3-4 Third Party System Software

Software	Description
OpenGL	Primary interface programmers use to create images.
www.opengl.org/developers/about/overview.html
OpenGL Utility library (GLU)	Contains routines that build on the lower level OpenGL library to perform
	such tasks as setting up matrices for specific viewing orientations and
	projections, performing polygon tessellation, and rendering surfaces.

freeglut http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/

OpenMotif

This library masks a number of the operating system specific calls for creating windows and managing input devices.

Royalty-free version of Motif®, the industry standard graphical user interface. It provides users with the industry's most widely used environment for standardizing application presentation on a wide range of platforms.

Distributed MultiHead X (DMX)	An open source application that provides a proxy X Server that distributes
http://dmx.sourceforge.net/	its display over multiple X Servers.
X Server (X.Org)	X Server available as part of the Red Hat distribution.
Chromium	A system for interactive rendering on clusters of graphics workstations.
http://chromium.sourceforge.net/

Table 3-5 Application Development Tools

Software	Description
Default GNU C and C++ compilers and run-time	Included as part of the Red Hat distribution.
gdb GNU debugger	Included as part of the Red Hat distribution.
Perl, Tcl/tk, Python	Scripting tools available as part of the Red Hat distribution.

64 bit Linux applications are supported on SVA systems. 34 bit applications may run if their providers have validated them to run on 64 bit Linux systems. You may find that you need to install additional libraries. You may also find that certain libraries, for example, MPI, don't work for particular hardware configurations.

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