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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Sun Visualization System</b> was a sharable visualization product introduced by <a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a> in January 2007. It used other Sun technologies, including Sun servers, <a href="Solaris_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">Solaris</a>, <a href="Sun_Ray" title="Sun Ray">Sun Ray</a> Ultra-Thin Clients, and <a href="Sun_Grid_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Grid Engine">Sun Grid Engine</a>. The Sun Visualization System software was based on several <a href="Open_source" title="Open source">open source</a> technologies: <a href="Chromium_(computer_graphics)" title="Chromium (computer graphics)">Chromium</a> to perform distributed 3D rendering, <a href="VirtualGL" title="VirtualGL">VirtualGL</a> to re-route 3D rendering jobs to arbitrary graphics devices, and <a href="VirtualGL#TurboVNC" title="VirtualGL">TurboVNC</a> 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.

</p><p>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.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_hardware_components">Main hardware components</h2></div>

<ul><li><a href="Sun_Fire" title="Sun Fire">Sun Fire</a> servers</li>

<li><a href="Sun_Ultra" title="Sun Ultra">Sun Ultra</a> workstations</li>

<li>Graphics Accelerators: Sun XVR-2500, <a href="Nvidia_Quadro" class="mw-redirect" title="Nvidia Quadro">Nvidia Quadro</a> FX, or <a href="Nvidia_Quadro_Plex" title="Nvidia Quadro Plex">Nvidia Quadro Plex</a> VCS</li></ul>

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<ul><li>The <b>Sun Shared Visualization</b> 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.</li>

<li>The <b>Sun Scalable Visualization</b> software contained customized versions of Chromium, OpenSceneGraph, <a href="ParaView" title="ParaView">ParaView</a>, and <a href="Message_Passing_Interface" title="Message Passing Interface">MPI</a>. It also contained glueware to allow distributed 3D rendering jobs to be managed by Sun GridEngine.</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/visualization-hpc/">OpenSolaris Project: Visualization for HPC</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.virtualgl.org/">VirtualGL: 3D Without Boundaries</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.virtualgl.org/vgldoc/2_1_1/">User’s Guide for VirtualGL 2.1.1 and TurboVNC 0.5</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vizworld.com/2009/05/official-word-from-sun-on-their-visualization-offerings/">VizWorld: Official Word from Sun on their Visualization Offerings</a></li></ul>

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</style><div id="Sun_Microsystems214" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><a href="Acquisition_of_Sun_Microsystems_by_Oracle_Corporation" title="Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation">Acquired by Oracle</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hardware</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="SPARCstation" title="SPARCstation">SPARCstation</a>–server–center

<li><a href="SPARCclassic" title="SPARCclassic">classic</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Netra" title="Sun Netra">Netra</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Ultra" title="Sun Ultra">Ultra</a>

<li><a href="Sun_Enterprise" title="Sun Enterprise">Enterprise</a>

<li><a href="Sun_Blade" title="Sun Blade">Blade server</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Blade_(workstation)" title="Sun Blade (workstation)">Blade workstation</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_Enterprise" title="SPARC Enterprise">SPARC Enterprise</a></li>

<li><a href="JavaStation" title="JavaStation">JavaStation</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Java_Workstation" title="Sun Java Workstation">Java Workstation</a></li>

<li><a href="Cobalt_Qube" title="Cobalt Qube">Cobalt Qube</a></li>

<li><a href="Cobalt_RaQ" title="Cobalt RaQ">Cobalt RaQ</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Processors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="MicroSPARC" title="MicroSPARC">microSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="SuperSPARC" title="SuperSPARC">SuperSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_II" title="UltraSPARC II">UltraSPARC II</a>

<ul><li>UltraSPARC IIe</li>

<li>UltraSPARC IIi</li>

<li>Gemini</li></ul></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_III" title="UltraSPARC III">UltraSPARC III</a>

<ul><li>UltraSPARC III Cu</li>

<li>UltraSPARC IIIi</li></ul></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_IV" title="UltraSPARC IV">UltraSPARC IV</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_T1" title="UltraSPARC T1">UltraSPARC T1</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_T2" title="UltraSPARC T2">UltraSPARC T2</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T3" title="SPARC T3">SPARC T3</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T4" title="SPARC T4">SPARC T4</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T5" title="SPARC T5">SPARC T5</a></li>

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<li><a href="Fireplane" title="Fireplane">Fireplane</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Modular_Datacenter" title="Sun Modular Datacenter">Modular Datacenter</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Neptune" title="Sun Neptune">Neptune</a></li>

<li><a href="System_Service_Processor" title="System Service Processor">System Service Processor</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T_series" title="SPARC T series">SPARC T series</a></li>

<li><a href="Ultra_Port_Architecture" title="Ultra Port Architecture">Ultra Port Architecture</a></li>

<li><a href="Visual_Instruction_Set" title="Visual Instruction Set">Visual Instruction Set</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Software</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="SunOS" title="SunOS">SunOS</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Solaris" title="Oracle Solaris">Solaris</a></li>

<li><a href="SunView" title="SunView">SunView</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenWindows" title="OpenWindows">OpenWindows</a></li>

<li><a href="Java_Desktop_System" title="Java Desktop System">Java Desktop System</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Developer_Studio" title="Oracle Developer Studio">Studio</a></li>

<li><a href="StarOffice" title="StarOffice">StarOffice</a></li>

<li><a href="IPlanet" title="IPlanet">iPlanet</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Java_System" title="Sun Java System">Java System</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Secure_Global_Desktop" title="Oracle Secure Global Desktop">Sun Secure Global Desktop</a></li>

<li><a href="MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a></li>

<li><a href="GlassFish" title="GlassFish">GlassFish</a></li>

<li><a href="VirtualBox" title="VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Storage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Sun_StorageTek_5800_System" title="Sun StorageTek 5800 System">StorageTek 5800 System</a></li>

<li><a href="StorageTek_SL8500" title="StorageTek SL8500">StorageTek SL8500</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Open_Storage" title="Sun Open Storage">Open Storage</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Performance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Sun_Cloud" title="Sun Cloud">Cloud</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Constellation_System" title="Sun Constellation System">Constellation System</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Grid_Engine" title="Oracle Grid Engine">Grid Engine</a></li>

<li><a href="Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Research</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Oracle_Labs" title="Oracle Labs">Sun Microsystems Laboratories</a></li>

<li><a href="PicoJava" title="PicoJava">picoJava</a></li>

<li><a href="Fortress_(programming_language)" title="Fortress (programming language)">Fortress</a></li>

<li><a href="Project_Looking_Glass" title="Project Looking Glass">Project Looking Glass</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="BlueJ" title="BlueJ">BlueJ</a></li>

<li><a href="Curriki" title="Curriki">Global Education & Learning Community</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Acquisitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Afara_Websystems" title="Afara Websystems">Afara Websystems</a></li>

<li><a href="Cobalt_Networks" title="Cobalt Networks">Cobalt Networks</a></li>

<li><a href="Gridware" class="mw-redirect" title="Gridware">Gridware</a></li>

<li><a href="Lighthouse_Design" title="Lighthouse Design">Lighthouse Design</a></li>

<li><a href="Montalvo_Systems" title="Montalvo Systems">Montalvo Systems</a></li>

<li><a href="MySQL_AB" title="MySQL AB">MySQL AB</a></li>

<li><a href="Procom_Technology" title="Procom Technology">Procom Technology</a></li>

<li><a href="SavaJe" title="SavaJe">SavaJe</a></li>

<li><a href="StorageTek" title="StorageTek">StorageTek</a></li>

<li><a href="Tarantella%2C_Inc." title="Tarantella, Inc.">Tarantella</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Slogans</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="The_Network_is_the_Computer" title="The Network is the Computer">The Network is the Computer</a></li>

<li><a href="Write_once%2C_run_anywhere" title="Write once, run anywhere">Write once, run anywhere</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Community</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Common_Development_and_Distribution_License" title="Common Development and Distribution License">Common Development and Distribution License</a></li>

<li><a href="Java_Community_Process" title="Java Community Process">Java Community Process</a></li>

<li><a href="NetBeans" title="NetBeans">NetBeans</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenOffice.org" title="OpenOffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenSolaris" title="OpenSolaris">OpenSolaris</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenSPARC" title="OpenSPARC">OpenSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenJDK" title="OpenJDK">OpenJDK</a></li>

<li><a href="Open_Source_University_Meetup" title="Open Source University Meetup">Open Source University Meetup</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Sun_Microsystems_employees" title="List of Sun Microsystems employees">People</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a></li>

<li><a href="Scott_McNealy" title="Scott McNealy">Scott McNealy</a></li>

<li><a href="Vinod_Khosla" title="Vinod Khosla">Vinod Khosla</a></li></ul>

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