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Third party system software, Application development tools, Table 3-4 – HP Scalable Visualization Array Software User Manual

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Table 3-4 Third Party System Software

Description

Software

Primary interface programmers use to create images.

OpenGL

http://www.opengl.org/

Contains routines that build on the lower level OpenGL library
to perform such tasks as setting up matrices for specific viewing
orientations and projections, performing polygon tessellation,
and rendering surfaces.

OpenGL Utility library (GLU)

This library masks a number of the operating system specific
calls for creating windows and managing input devices.

freeglut

http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/

Royalty-free version of Motif®, the industry standard graphical
user interface. It provides users with the industry's most widely
used environment for standardizing application presentation on
a wide range of platforms.

OpenMotif

An open source application that provides a proxy X Server that
distributes its display over multiple X Servers.

Distributed MultiHead X (DMX)

http://dmx.sourceforge.net/

X Server available as part of the Red Hat distribution.

X Server (X.Org)

A system for interactive rendering on clusters of graphics
workstations.

Chromium

http://chromium.sourceforge.net/

Table 3-5 Application Development Tools

Description

Software

Included as part of the HP XC distribution.

Default GNU C and C++ compilers and
run-time

Included as part of the HP XC distribution.

gdb

GNU debugger

Scripting tools available as part of the HP XC distribution.

Perl, Tcl/tk, Python

64 bit Linux applications are supported on SVA systems; 34 bit applications may run if their
providers have validated them to run on 64 bit Linux systems. You may find that you need to
install additional libraries. You may also find that certain libraries, for example, MPI, don't work
for particular hardware configurations.

3.6 SVA Software Summary

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