Re: [VirtualGL-Users] gpu vs cpu

2013-09-19 Thread Amanda Tumminello
I am currently working in a blade server environment. It consists of 13 blades with dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 8 core processors 2.7Ghz sandy bridge processors within each blade. If i were to add GPUs i would end up losing a processing blade. sorry for my naivte. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:52

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] gpu vs cpu

2013-09-19 Thread DRC
Yeah, but a single high-end GPU is going to render OpenGL faster than all of the 200-some-odd cores in your cluster combined. Seems like a good trade-off to me. On 9/19/13 1:27 PM, Amanda Tumminello wrote: I am currently working in a blade server environment. It consists of 13 blades with

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] gpu vs cpu

2013-09-19 Thread Arthur Huillet
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:56:42 -0500 Amanda Tumminello tumminel...@gmail.com wrote: We have some servers with adequate processing that i have been told should be able to handle the graphics load. Whoever told you that is highly likely to be wrong - or you are running very un-demanding

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] gpu vs cpu

2013-09-19 Thread Amanda Tumminello
ok. Thank you for the information. I will definately continue down the gpu path then... On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:07 PM, DRC dcomman...@users.sourceforge.netwrote: Yeah, but a single high-end GPU is going to render OpenGL faster than all of the 200-some-odd cores in your cluster combined.