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How can OpenGL graphics be displayed remotely using VNC?

I am attempting to run a program that uses OpenGL to render a model in a viewport through VNC unsuccessfully. The error message I receive is - Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0". It was my understanding that VNC can be configured to…
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Remote offscreen rendering

My research lab recently added a server that has a beefy NVIDIA graphics card, which we would like to use to do scientific computations. Since it isn't a workstation, we'll have to run our jobs remotely, over an ssh connection. Most of our…
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Remote 3D-accelerated OpenGL apps from Windows server

Is there any solution that will you allow you to run GPU-accelerated OpenGL applications remotely, given: The remote machine is a Microsoft Windows server There is a 3D graphics card in the remote machine (e.g., NVIDIA, ATI) In particular, is this…
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Hardware advice for bitmap / openGL image processing server?

I am trying to work out a build for a processing server to handle bitmap processing as well as openGL rendering for chroma-keying images and Photoshop automation. My searches here and on Google have turned up surprisingly few results, and seeing…
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code opengl through SSH, run program though machine's display

I am working through the Opengl Bible 5th edition. Due to a recent hardware failure my primary machine is now an old laptop that does not support the opengl standard for my tutorial book. I have a headless server running Ubuntu 11.10 which has a…
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OpenGL 4+ will not work on RemoteFX with Windows Server 2012 Standard host and Windows 7 SP1 Enterprise/Windows 8.1 Enterprise VMs

I have installed Windows Server 2012 Standard on the following hardware: -Intel desktop motherboard with Virtualization hardware support. -16 GB of RAM -Intel i5-2500 (Supports SLAT) -nVidia Quadro 5000 -1TB HDD As per…
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x11 forwarding: Server has no GPU - and no swrast_dri.so

I am trying to set up my server so that I can use Chromium remotely, which I need to put away some of the silly IP restrictions... Therefore, I need to utilize X11 forwarding and - apparently? - need to have OpenGL available. First, some info of the…
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Amazon EC2 VNC Nvidia GPU usage?

I have a GPU instance on Amazon Web Services I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS The console show that the drivers are loaded perfectly, see below output $nvidia-smi -q | head ==============NVSMI LOG============== Timestamp : Thu…
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Amazon Web Services viable for OpenGL driven app?

Our company currently has an openGL/directX powered app for viewing 3D models. Some of our customers have expressed an interest in a cloud based solution that would allow their users of devices with limited resources to view very large models which…
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Cloud Linux with OpenGL acceleration?

We are thinking about launching some Linux server-side services which would greatly benefit of having real accelerated OpenGL available. Currently we are running normal server instances with Mesa library and software rendering on CPUs. Works, albeit…
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OpenGL support in Solaris 10 x86

Our application supports Solaris Sparc and certain parts of it rely on OpenGL. I couldn't find the official guide on OpenGL support of Solaris x86. Any one has the respective information or related experience of OpenGL support in Solaris x86…
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Why does VirtualGL raise a *Could not open display :0* error after host reboot

I am using vncserver to connect to a CentOS7 machine in the network. In order to make use of 3D graphics accelerations I am using VirtualGL. So any OpenGL program needs to be launched with vglrun to make use of OpenGL. This works like a charm but…
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OpenGL on Windows Server 2012 R2

I have my own game written in Java and it uses the Slick2D game library which uses OpenGL. The game has some multiplayer features so i need to start the server-software for the game on a Windows-Server, but OpenGL does not work because the…
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Testing ATI hardware for OpenGL

We have an application that uses OpenGL, and historically it has run lousy on ATI cards, although results have been different depending on card/driver combo. We're trying to put together a test machine on a very low budget, where we can swap in…
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Should Windows Multipoint Server stations on individual video cards support hardware video acceleration?

I've set up a test machine with multiple PCI-e nVidia GF440 Video cards and installed Windows Multipoint Server 2011. I use the same kind of hardware set up with a BeTwin multiseat solution to create a class lab for Google SketchUp teaching (highly…
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