Meeting Agenda- 1999.10.27

October 27, 1999

Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair: Pascale Proulx

Member List

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:: Selina
Coffee hour next week:: ??

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, November 3rd, 1999.
Location:: DC1304
Time:: 1:30 p.m.
Chair:: Chris O'Sullivan
Technical presentation:: Pascale Proulx

4. Forthcoming

Tech Presenters:

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Jasmin Patry :-)

Title:

Accelerated OpenGL with XFree86 and Linux

http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~jfpatry/dr/

Abstract:

Support for high-performance 3D graphics under Linux is rapidly evolving. Many hardware and software vendors (including SGI, nVidia, 3dfx, ATI Technologies, Alias|Wavefront, Side Effects Software, etc.), have announced support for their products under Linux. Currently, accelerated OpenGL rendering is possible using several consumer-level graphics cards and the Mesa Graphics Library (a high-quality OpenGL "clone").

However, integration with XFree86 -- the X Server most commonly used under Linux -- is still in its infancy. This limits the types of 3D applications that can currently run on Linux, since accelerated OpenGL rendering is only available in full-screen mode.

In this talk I will discuss the efforts underway to add high-performance OpenGL support to the XFree86 X Server. I will give an overview of the GLX graphics library extension which allows OpenGL and the X Window System to work together. I will then discuss the new Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) for XFree86 4.0, which aims to overcome some of the performance limitations of the indirect rendering model normally used by GLX.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

Glass bottles are neither cans nor plastic, so throw them in the proper recycling bin.
GI deadline Nov. 19. This time it will be in Montreal.
The SIGGRAPH 2000 is deadline Jan. 12.
Bill is collecting ideas for lab improvements, like things to buy for the lab.
DGP Visit: to be organized with DGP.

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars




Thursday, October 28, 1999 
        Health Informatics
        ``Canada Health Infoway''
        with Applied Health Science
        9:30 - 2:00 p.m.; Lyle Hallman Institute (BMH) Clarica Auditorium 
        (contact Anne Pidduck x4662)



Thursday, November 4, 1999
        Notel Networks Conference
        ``The Next 10 Years of Networks''
        A technical discussion to help clarify research issues.
        For detailed information, please access the following website:
        http://plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca/~holt/nortel/techconf/99/
        10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.; Laurel Room, South Campus Hall