the new parhelia opengl icd, who wrote it?

[TdB]

it has been hinted several times that matrox "got help" with their parhelia opengl icd, can somebody enlighten us about this, or is this still under NDA?

[Wombat]

Still NDA.

[Ant]

Some real professionals who really know OpenGL, should be quite an easy one for you to guess

[TdB]

ok, if that NDA ever expires, then let us know, im kinda curious.

[TdB]

Originally posted by Ant
Some real professionals who really know OpenGL, should be quite an easy one for you to guess

well, from that description, i would guess SGI, as they practically invented opengl in the first place, AFAIk.

[Indiana]

Yes, SGI or 3DLabs. And since 3DLabs will have a competing product out (P10), I think we can count them out.

[Jon P. Inghram]

SGI, great... we'll get OpenGL drivers that look very good, and can render large scale very complex 3D scenes at 5 fps, and also small scale, very simple 3D scenes at 5 fps.

[TdB]

Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
SGI, great... we'll get OpenGL drivers that look very good, and can render large scale very complex 3D scenes at 5 fps, and also small scale, very simple 3D scenes at 5 fps.

ehh, sgi makes some pretty fast 3d accelerators too, suited for realtime animations, they aren´t all made for the for 5 fps cad-apps.

[Mephisto]

It's suspicious that the new 3dlabs product uses nearly the same memory interface as Parhelia... Both cards are not oriented to the same market. 3dlabs is graphic workstation oriented, and Parhelia, despite whatever Matrox can say, seems to be oriented for advanced users (DVD playback), hardcore gamers (Surround Gaming, FAAx16), video edit, and multiscreen workstations.

I smell here some kind of alliance, and it wouldn't surprise me that the "hidden" force behind the ICD is 3dlabs.

[KvHagedorn]

Thought I heard some mention about 3DLabs here not long ago. Check out TCB.. I'm sure there was a thread about the release of P10 there, and some hints at a relationship with M.