The Flight GL tool provides a facility for users to manage the lifecycle of a GLX-capable X11 server running on a GPU to provide hardware-accelerated rendering for OpenGL GUI applications.
Flight GL is built on top of VirtualGL, an open source toolkit that gives Linux remote display software (such as VNC) the ability to run OpenGL applications with full hardware acceleration.
While VirtualGL is usually configured to make use of a long-lived X11 server operated by the superuser (usually running as display :0), Flight GL allows individual users to control the lifecycle of their own, user-operated X11 servers. This allows users more flexibility in their interactive HPC worklows, deciding at what key points in their workflow they wish to use the GPU resources available to them for GPGPU processing (e.g. CUDA workloads) or visualisation (e.g. OpenGL applications).
Install from git:
git clone https://github.com/openflighthpc/flight-gl
cd flight-gl
bin/gl --help
Or install the RPM or DEB from the OpenFlight repos:
yum install flight-gl
apt-get install flight-gl
If installing from git, you'll also need to install some other packages.
- Install the
VirtualGLpackage (EPEL) andxorg-x11-server-Xorgpackage.
- TBC.
Please refer to the Quick Start and User Guide for more details.
Fork the project. Make your feature addition or bug fix. Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
Eclipse Public License 2.0, see LICENSE.txt for details.
Copyright (C) 2020-present Alces Flight Ltd.
This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, or alternative license terms made available by Alces Flight Ltd - please direct inquiries about licensing to [email protected].
Flight GL is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Eclipse Public License 2.0 for more details.