I use a Linux (RHEL 5) machine with 16G ram, two dual core Opterons and two Nvidia Quadro cards to drive a pair of Panasonic projectors lighting up my 10 foot diagonal passive stereo display wall.
It works quite well. _________________________________________ Ron Jerome Programmer/Analyst National Research Council Canada M-2, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 Government of Canada Phone: 613-993-5346 FAX: 613-941-1571 _________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Ricardo Reis > Sent: March 27, 2008 6:41 AM > To: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: [Beowulf] visualization machine > > > Hi all > > I beg to take advantage of your experience although the topic isn't > completly cluster thing. I got some money to buy a new machine, at > least > 8Gb and I'm thinking between a 2 x dual core or a 1 x quad (or even 2x > quads). It must be one machine because it must (urgh) be able to use > it's > 8Gb in serial codes (don't ask). Anyway, I've been experiencing with > paraview for parallel visualization and was wondering on your opinion > on... buying a ultra-duper-cool state-of-the-art graphic card (Nvidia) > or > 2 graphic cards? > > thanks for your time, > > Ricardo Reis > > 'Non Serviam' > > PhD student @ Lasef > Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence > http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt > > & > > Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero > http://www.radiozero.pt > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
