HP SVA V2.0 Release Notes

Parallel Compositing Library Reference Guide in the SVA Documentation Library for more
information.
— Upgrade Chromium to V1.9.
— Upgrade HP RGS to V4.0 with enhanced firewall support.
— Updated documentation and manpages for new functionality.
• Available in HP SVA V1.1 Patch Kit 3
— G-Sync cards for framelock work with two graphics cards per node. Previously, support
existed for G-Sync cards to work only with one graphics card per node.
— The new G-Sync support requires a new NVIDIA graphics card driver (V8762), which
is installed with this release. (The old version was V8174.) It also contains changes to
the framelock scripts, and changes to the SVA X Config files.
• Available in HP SVA V1.1 Patch Kit 2
— Integrated SVA support for configuring and using stereo display devices.
— Ability to define a default tile resolution for a specific Display Surface.
— Integrated SVA support for G-Sync framelock for multi-tile displays.
• Available in HP SVA V1.1 Patch Kit 1
— You can launch jobs from any node in the SVA cluster. Users are no longer limited to
launching jobs from the head node.
◦ As part of this change, the Site Configuration File was moved from
/opt/sva/etc/sva.conf to /hptc_cluster/sva/etc/sva.conf.
◦ As part of this change, generated DMX configuration files for each Display Surface
were moved from /hptc_cluster/sva/etc to /hptc_cluster/sva/etc/dmx.
— Documentation and manpages referring to the location of the Site Configuration File
were updated.
— Some changes were made to make it easier to upgrade RPMs in place.
— X config files for driving two displays on machines with one graphics card now work
when there aren't two display devices connected.
— It is now possible to completely stop and clean up the SVA OVP by hitting Ctrl-C.
— Comments were added to /opt/sva/etc/sva_template.conf describing how the
<nodename>.COORDINATE tag values are used.
— svaconfigurenode can be used to show display block geometry as a non-root user.
See the HP SVA System Management Guide for more information on display blocks and
this utility.
— svaconfigurenode now works when node names use the default style (for example,
n1, n2, n3, ... ).
— svaconfigurenode can now change all display nodes to render nodes. Without Patch
Kit 1, it is not possible to change the last display node to a render node without errors.
1.3 Release Notes
1. BIOS: Minimal Supported Versions
• Impact
High
• Summary
The factory versions of the installed xw8200 and xw9300 BIOS or higher are the only
supported versions.
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