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<DIV>We have an NVIDIA Quadro4 900 in our display machine. It might be overkill,
but the performance is amazing. I haven't seen it reach its limit yet.</DIV>
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<DIV>Darin<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR><BR>On 7/10/2003 at 1:51 PM
Coorpender, Steven wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>I think that buying a 3dlabs card for your ag display machine
would most likely be unnecessary and much too expensive...in fact, unless you
are running 3D rendering applications on your display machine, you do not need
the 3d acceleration features that cards like the FireGL and Wildcat offer. For
access grid display use, multi-headed 2D cards are all that is needed. AGP
bandwidth should not be a problem either. I'm not sure, but I have heard that
high performance 3D cards sacrifice 2D performance (for cost-efficiency,
etc.).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Steven Coorpender</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Systems
Analyst</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>LSU Eye Center</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>From:
Douglas Baggett [<A
href="mailto:dbaggett@nsf.gov">mailto:dbaggett@nsf.gov</A>] </FONT><BR><FONT
size=2>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:40 AM</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>To:
'ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov'</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Subject: [AG-TECH] Best Video
card for VIC</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Recently we had a Grid meeting and due to the fact that there
were too </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>many windows on the console screen, the video
card could not handle it </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>(it was a NVIDIA FireGL
card).</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Assuming the problem is bandwidth on the AGP bus (please
correct me if I </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>am wrong), has anybody used some of
the new AGP 8x cards like the </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>wildcat 4 from
3dlabs?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Administratively of course the correct solution is to request
sites to </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>limit the number of cameras used when joining
an event. The problem was </FONT><BR><FONT size=2>that during this meeting we
had many ad-hoc sites.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>thanks!</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>-Doug Baggett</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>CISE/NSF/OAD</FONT>
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