The development of Equalizer was co-funded by the HBP during the Ramp-up Phase. This page is kept for reference but will no longer be updated.

Equalizer is a parallel rendering framework to create and deploy parallel, scalable OpenGL applications. It provides the following major features to facilitate the development and deployment of scalable OpenGL applications:

• Runtime Configurability: An Equalizer application is configured automatically or manually at runtime and can be deployed on laptops, multi-GPU workstations and large-scale visualization clusters without recompilation.
• Runtime Scalability: An Equalizer application can benefit from multiple graphics cards, processors and computers to scale rendering performance, visual quality and display size.
• Distributed Execution: Equalizer applications can be written to support cluster-based execution. Equalizer uses the Collage network library, a cross-platform C++ library for building heterogeneous, distributed applications.

Support for Stereo and Immersive Environments: Equalizer supports stereo rendering head tracking, head-mounted displays and other advanced features for immersive Virtual Reality installations.