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Sun Visualization System

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Sun Visualization System is a sharable visualization solution introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007. It uses technologies in other Sun products, including Sun servers, Solaris, Sun Grid Engine. Sun also adopts open source software such as VirtualGL and TurboVNC, and contributes changes back to the projects.

Main hardware components

  • Sun Fire servers
  • Sun Ultra workstations
  • Graphics Accelerators: Sun XVR-2500, NVIDIA Quadro FX, or NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS

Software Stack

  • Sun Shared Visualization software
  • Sun Scalable Visualization software