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Sun Fire V880z Server and Sun XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator Installation and User’s Guide • May 2003
Sun XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator
Overview
The Sun XVR-4000 graphics accelerator is a high-performance, photorealistic 3D
graphics accelerator that runs over the Sun
TM
Fireplane interconnect bus on the
Sun Fire V880z server (
). Application Program interfaces include Sun
OpenGL
®
1.3 for Solaris and Java3D
TM
. Imaging is supported through the Java
TM
Advanced Imaging API. The Sun XVR-4000 graphics accelerator produces visual
realism by providing extremely high-performance rendering, and providing full-
scene antialiasing “on-the-fly” such that high-quality antialiased rendering becomes
expected.
FIGURE 2-1
Sun Fire V880z Server
microsystems
Sun
Fir
e v
880
z
