[Beowulf] visualization machine

[Jerome, Ron]

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.

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Ron Jerome
Programmer/Analyst
National Research Council Canada
M-2, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6
Government of Canada
Phone: 613-993-5346
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org]
> On Behalf Of Ricardo Reis
> Sent: March 27, 2008 6:41 AM
> To: beowulf at 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
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> 
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