14 DAY TRIAL // The famous HP information technology company has recently released an announcement according to which it will make public a graphic library under the GPLv2 license. More exactly, HP said that they will open source the code for their Parrallel Compositing Library visualization software. Moreover, HP promises support for the Linux operating systems regarding the pay-per-use-front.
HP's Parallel Compositing Library is defined and implemented in collaboration with some of HP's partners and its main purpose is to provide a common set of functions which should be able to facilitate parallel rendering. The scaling technique on which this library is designed is called Sort-last rendering, and, as the HP representatives wrote on one of their websites, this technique consists mainly in putting together a number of graphics smaller images produced by the cards, which will represent a part of the final image. Then the compositing operators combine these images to create the final image.
By open sourcing this software HP expects developers to become interested in the code and help developing it in new directions too. Along with the library release in San Francisco, HP officials also said that they've added support for the Xen virtualization package and Debian OS as part of its Partner Virtualization Program (PVP for short). HP's PVP addresses mostly those interested in testing source code on their virtual or normal server rather than buying it. However the company also offers a virtualized Itanium server and system based on the famous VMWare software.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States, the Hewlett-Packard (HP for short) company is a famous name in the fields of computing, printing and digital imaging and also provides software and services. HP is also the No. 1 ranking company in worldwide personal computer shipments, surpassing Dell according to the Gartner and IDC market research companies' reports for October 2006.