NCMIR SAGE description
Scalable Adaptive Graphical Environment

The name SAGE stands for Scalable Adaptive Graphical Environment.

SAGE was designed to be a graphics streaming architecture for supporting high-resolution, scalable and collaborative scientific visualization environments.

It is primarily designed to be run as a thin middleware on cluster driven tile-displays. It allows users to treat the high-resolution distributed displays as one contiguous desktop where users can move/resize application windows. SAGE is network centric and the applications running on these displays need not run locally.

The applications can be run on remote machines or clusters and can stream their pixel framebuffers to SAGE enabled tile-displays.