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VirtualGL (VGL) is an open-source software package that redirects the 3D rendering commands from Unix and Linux OpenGL applications to 3D accelerator hardware in a dedicated server and sends the rendered output to a (thin) client located elsewhere on the network. On the server side, VirtualGL consists of a library that handles the redirection and a wrapper program that instructs applications to use this library. Clients can connect to the server either using a remote X11 connection or using an X11 proxy such as a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server. In case of an X11 connection some client-

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Vinony's link graph records 11 inbound references to VirtualGL, and connects out to X.Org Foundation, X.Org Server and tiling window manager.

It is catalogued under topics including Free windowing systems, OpenGL and Remote desktop.

Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.

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free software
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www.virtualgl.org
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C
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