Current state of the art for networked 3D acceleration?

[Dan B. Phung]

Seb James wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 15:25 -0500, Dan B. Phung wrote:
>   
>> you can get indirect hardware accelerated rendering using AIGLX, just 
>> get direct rendering enabled on your xserver, ssh with X forwarding, and 
>> it should just work, though this route is pretty slow/laggy, e.g. can't 
>> play quake, even over a LAN.  Another system that supports hardware 
>> accelerated remote display is to use server side hardware accelerated 
>> rendering where you read back the framebuffer on the server and send JPG 
>> or video to your client.  VirtualGL supports sending JPGs, and with 
>> TurboVNC, you have a complete solution where you can access your 
>> desktop.  Playing quake on virtualgl/turbovnc isn't quite feasible yet 
>> either.
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'd like to get indirect rendering working to test
> it. Right now I get no joy using ssh with X forwarding.
>
>   
Does ssh with X forwarding work for normal applications, like xpdf?  as 
I was told a couple of weeks back, AIGLX is simply GLX with hardware 
acceleration enabled on your server, so also may sure you have Direct 
Rendering on your server (thin client). 

> Do I need to start the XServer on my thin client with any particular
> options? I think it should have built with AIGLX enabled by default (I
> built git-head about a week ago).
>   
in the xserver configuration, you need:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Option          "AIGLX" "on"
        ...
EndSection

> VirtualGL looks interesting, I'm going to test it out. Does it work ok
> with multiple concurrent users I wonder?
>
> Seb
>