Why can I run some ECCE applications on an SGI displaying to a Sun console as an X server and vice versa?
ECCE visualization applications such as Builder and Calculation Viewer rely on OpenGL. OpenGL is a networked graphics library similar to X so that the OpenGL implementation of the console you are running on is responsible for the display. Unfortunately, the SGI and Sun implementations are not compatible so you cannot sit at an SGI console and run the graphics applications on a Sun or vice versa. This is true only if you are using hardware graphics. If you use a software implementation of OpenGL (via X windows), it will work. The drawbacks to this solution are that the performance is much slower and special software licensing is required. ECCE currently does not support software rendering due to these drawbacks.
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