LunarG

LunarG
Industry Software industry, computer graphics
Founded 2009
Headquarters Colorado, United States[1]
Website lunarg.com

LunarG is a software company specializing in device driver development for video cards.

History

In 2001, Jens Owen cofounded Tungsten Graphics,[2] a software company working on video card drivers, which among other things, developed the Gallium3D framework for graphics drivers. The company was acquired by VMware in 2008;[3] a year later, Jens Owen along with Alan Ward founded LunarG to continue this work.[4]

Projects

LunarG is working with Valve Corporation to improve the graphics driver stack on Linux, in particular, Mesa[5][6] and the driver for Intel HD Graphics.[7][8] As a showcase, they also developed a separate unofficial driver for HD Graphics called the "ILO", based on Gallium3D.[9][10]

LunarG is currently developing a Vulkan-compatible runtime and HD Graphics driver for on Linux, sponsored by Valve Corporation.[11][12] Vulkan is an open graphics standard, designed to be the successor for OpenGL.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "LunarG, Inc. business registration records". Colorado Secretary of State. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Brian Paul. "Mesa Introduction". mesa3d.org.
  3. ↑ David Marshall (16 December 2008). "VMware's year end acquisition of Tungsten Graphics". InfoWorld.
  4. ↑ Michael Larabel (18 October 2013). "LunarG Pushes Forward To Advance Open-Source Graphics". Phoronix.
  5. ↑ "Valve Sponsored Mesa OpenGL Improvements Significantly Reduce Loading Times on Linux Games". gameskinny.com. 6 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Valve fördert Verbesserungen an freien Grafiktreibern für Linux". heise.de. 11 June 2014.
  7. ↑ Silviu Stahie (6 November 2014). "Massive 20% Improvement to Land in Intel's Mesa Driver Thanks to Valve's Efforts". Softpedia.
  8. ↑ Ferdinand Thommes (6 November 2014). "Linux-Grafiktreiber: Intel erfährt dank LunarG massive Leistungssteigerung". ComputerBase.
  9. ↑ Michael Larabel (23 February 2014). "Intel Gallium3D Driver Continues Advancing". Phoronix.
  10. ↑ Michael Larabel (13 June 2014). "LunarG ILO Gallium3D vs. Intel's DRI Driver On Mesa 10.3-devel". Phoronix.
  11. ↑ Michael Larabel (3 April 2015). "How Open-Source Allowed Valve To Implement VULKAN Much Faster On The Source 2 Engine". Phoronix.
  12. ↑ Nick Farrell (6 March 2015). "Valve develops its own Intel graphics driver for Linux". fudzilla.com.
  13. ↑ Tim Anderson (3 March 2015). "Here comes Vulkan: The next generation of the OpenGL graphics API". The Register.

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