Chromium Homepage

Chromium is a system for interactive rendering on clusters of graphics workstations. Various parallel rendering techniques such as sort-first and sort-last may be implemented with Chromium. Furthermore, Chromium allows filtering and manipulation of OpenGL command streams for non-invasive rendering algorithms.

Chromium runs on Microsoft Windows and several types of Unix such as Linux and IRIX.

Documentation

• Main Chromium documentation

SourceForge

The Chromium project is hosted on SourceForge. The following areas may be of interest:

• Download Chromium
• Mailing Lists
• Bug database

Chromium Papers, Articles, etc.

• SIGGRAPH 2002 Chromium paper
• Non-Invasive Interactive Visualization of Dynamic Architectural Environments
• TRN article about the above.

Presentations

• What's New in Chromium? - Brian Paul's slides from the Chromium User Group meeting on April 28, 2004 in Santa Fe, NM.

Applications

• NCSA TerraServer Blaster

Other Chromium / Cluster Rendering Links

• Penn State's High Resolution Display Wall
• Cluster rendering at Indiana University and Cluster hardware
• Display Wall-in-a-Box at NCSA
• ASCI VIEWS - Scalable Rendering
• R3vis Corporation's OpenRM Scene Graph and Chromium: Parallel Sort-First Rendering
• Cluster Rendering at Princeton University

Cluster Rendering Hardware

• Information/experiences with Stanford's graphics cluster

Commerial Links

• Tungsten Graphics, Inc. - Offers high-performance, Chromium-based, scalable visualization clusters and services.
• GraphStream, Inc., - Offers high-performance computing solutions, including Chromium.
• Visbox, Inc. - Offers the VisWall(tm) high resolution display wall which uses Chromium.