The three project groups of the GPC Group will announce new developments and plans for the future during a press conference and luncheon at SIGGRAPH '96 in New Orleans. The event will be held Wednesday, August 7 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Rosedown Room of the Hilton Riverside Hotel.

Highlights of the press conference will be the public debuts of three new benchmarks:

• The Xlib Playback Benchmark (XPB), the first standardized benchmark that measures X-server performance based on actual applications, will be demonstrated running newly developed standard benchmark files.

• GLperf, the OPC project group's standardized benchmark for measuring the optimal performance of 2D and 3D graphics primitives across all platforms, will be demonstrated running on different operating systems. The OPC project group will also introduce new viewsets for its Viewperf benchmark.

• The OpenGL port of the Picture-Level Benchmark (PLB) will be demonstrated running the PLB's standard benchmark files.

For more information on the GPC Group press conference at SIGGRAPH, contact Bob Cramblitt.