Sun Microsystems XVR-2500, Installation And User Manual

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Chapter 1 Overview 3
Features
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256 Mbytes of unified memory for video memory, texture memory, Pbuffer,
stencil, multisample, Z-buffer, accumulation buffer memory and display list
memory
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10-bit gamma correction
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Dual 1920
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1200 screens supported from a single board
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Dual 1280
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1024 stereo screen support
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Six programmable 36-bit vertex shaders supporting up to 1K instructions,
subroutines, loops, and conditionals
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48 programmable fragment shaders supporting up to 256K instructions,
subroutines, loops, and predicates
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Programmable pixel shader
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Hardware cursor
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Stereoscopic viewing support (frame sequential)
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Display data channel (DDC) monitor support for communication
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Display power management signaling (DPMS) to enable monitor’s power-saving
mode
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High-speed, full-featured DMA over the PCI-Express bus
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Multiscreen support using multiple cards in a single workstation
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Multiview functionality for genlocking two graphics accelerators
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Stereo output
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Dual DVI-I video out
Additional Features
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Geometry acceleration
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Model view matrix transformation of vertex and normal coordinates
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Texture matrix transformation of texture coordinates
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Perspective transformation
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Viewport transformation
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View volume clipping
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OpenGL operations (support Sun OpenGL 1.3 and OpenGL 1.5 for Solaris)
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Multitexture and cube mapping
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Points (2D, 3D, wide)
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Vectors (2D and 3D lines and line strips; wide, stippled
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Polygons (triangles, triangle strips, quads, quad strips, polygons, point or line
polygon mode)
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Antialiased points, vectors, and polygons