Sun Visualization System

Sun Visualization System was a sharable visualization product introduced by Sun Microsystems in January 2007. It used other Sun technologies, including Sun servers, Solaris, Sun Ray Ultra-Thin Clients, and Sun Grid Engine. The Sun Visualization System software was based on several open source technologies: Chromium to perform distributed 3D rendering, VirtualGL to re-route 3D rendering jobs to arbitrary graphics devices, and TurboVNC to deliver the rendered 3D images to a client or clients. Sun sponsored and/or contributed changes back to these projects throughout the life of the Sun Visualization System.

In January 2009, The VirtualGL project reported that it was no longer being sponsored by Sun Microsystems, and in April 2009, Sun announced that it was discontinuing the Sun Shared Visualization and Sun Scalable Visualization products. Customers were able to order the products through July 31, 2009, and service and support was provided until October 2014.

## Main hardware components

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* Sun Fire servers
* Sun Ultra workstations
* Graphics Accelerators: Sun XVR-2500, Nvidia Quadro FX, or Nvidia Quadro Plex VCS

## Software

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* The Sun Shared Visualization software consisted of VirtualGL, TurboVNC, a proprietary plugin to allow VirtualGL to send images directly to Sun Ray clients, and glueware to allow remote 3D rendering jobs to be managed by Sun GridEngine.
* The Sun Scalable Visualization software contained customized versions of Chromium, OpenSceneGraph, ParaView, and MPI. It also contained glueware to allow distributed 3D rendering jobs to be managed by Sun GridEngine.

## External links

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* OpenSolaris Project: Visualization for HPC
* VirtualGL: 3D Without Boundaries
* User’s Guide for VirtualGL 2.1.1 and TurboVNC 0.5
* VizWorld: Official Word from Sun on their Visualization Offerings

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Acquired by Oracle

Hardware|

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* Sun-1
* Sun-2
* Sun-3
* Sun386i
* Sun-4
* SPARCstation–server–center
* 1
* 2
* 4
* 5
* 10
* 20
* classic
* IPC
* IPX
* LX
* ZX
* Netra
* Ultra
* 1
* 2
* 5
* 10
* 24
* 30
* 60
* 80
* Enterprise
* 10000
* Blade server
* Blade workstation
* Fire
* 12K
* 15K
* E25K
* T2000
* X4500
* SPARC Enterprise
* JavaStation
* Java Workstation
* Ray
* Cobalt Qube
* Cobalt RaQ

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Processors|

* SPARC
* MB86900
* microSPARC
* SuperSPARC
* UltraSPARC
* UltraSPARC II
* UltraSPARC IIe
* UltraSPARC IIi
* Gemini
* UltraSPARC III
* UltraSPARC III Cu
* UltraSPARC IIIi
* UltraSPARC IV
* UltraSPARC T1
* UltraSPARC T2
* SPARC T3
* SPARC T4
* SPARC T5
* Rock
* MAJC

* Sun4d
* SBus
* Fireplane
* LOM port
* MBus
* Modular Datacenter
* Neptune
* System Service Processor
* SPARC T series
* SPOT
* Ultra Port Architecture
* Visual Instruction Set

Software|

* TOPS
* SunOS
* Solaris
* NIS
* NIS+
* NFS
* ZFS
* ZFS+
* SunView
* NeWS
* OpenWindows
* Java Desktop System
* Studio
* Java
* StarOffice
* iPlanet
* Java System
* Sun Secure Global Desktop
* MySQL
* xVM
* GlassFish
* VirtualBox

Storage|

* StorageTek 5800 System
* StorageTek SL8500
* Open Storage
* QFS
* ZFS

Performance|

* Cloud
* Constellation System
* Visualization System
* Grid Engine
* Lustre

Research|

* Sun Microsystems Laboratories
* picoJava
* Fortress
* Project Looking Glass

Education|

* BlueJ
* Global Education & Learning Community
* SCPs

Acquisitions|

* Afara Websystems
* Cobalt Networks
* Gridware
* Lighthouse Design
* Montalvo Systems
* MySQL AB
* Pixo
* Procom Technology
* SavaJe
* StorageTek
* Tarantella

Slogans|

* The Network is the Computer
* Write once, run anywhere

Community|

* Common Development and Distribution License
* Java Community Process
* NetBeans
* OpenOffice.org
* OpenSolaris
* OpenSPARC
* OpenJDK
* Open Source University Meetup

People|

* Bill Joy
* Andy Bechtolsheim
* Scott McNealy
* Vinod Khosla

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