* Installed JOGL on both linux and solaris.  Unfortunately opengl was not on our Suns so I punted.

* Installed on gridfarm002.

* JOGL was simple, but needed to unpack the jar that included the .so files.  Don't know why they were 
in a jar file.

* Must set CLASSPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get things to work.

* Played with pbuffers but don't really understand yet.  Do note the Swing versions won't work with pbuffers.

* Next problem is that this won't run remotely.

* Xvfb (from XFree86) allows you to run virtual frame buffers.  By running a vfb, you can run the X stuff required by 
OpenGL/JOGL to operate on a remote machine.  That is, I fire up an xvfb server on DISPLAY 0:1 on gf2.  I can then run X stuff on gf2 
by using "export DISPLAY=0:1". 

* I found a nice utility from Sun: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/xvfb.server.  This (with a few mods)allows you to start,
monitor, and stop the server.  This also will start it using the non-root account of your choice (ie gateway). 
See also http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_graphics.html.

* Incidentally, gf2 runs RedHat Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow).  I found the appropriate version of Xvfb and installed it trivially--there
were no missing dependencies.  This was learned after several false steps.  

* Next step is to figure out how to do offscreen rendering with pbuffer, but actually this may not even be necessary.

* Found some useful stuff on writing to files here: http://www.repeatwhiletrue.com/p5/P5JOGL.html.  Note last link is incorrect (just
increment the number).