Scrive Jocelyn Nadeau <joce...@umce.ca>: > Bonjour, > > We're new to AG and are working on setting up our first AG node. We are > looking to buy this > hardware to run AG. > > Dell Precision 670 workstations, 2G RAM, (2) 3.0Ghz xeon, (2) 160G SATA > drives in Raid 1, > nVidia Quadro FX 1400 128MB dual VGA, on-board Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > > In the display machine, we are planning to use a Matrox G450 (quad DVI) + > another to be > determined Matrox (dual DVI). > > In the capture machine, we are planning to use either the IDS Falcon or > Dorado quad capture > card. > > Are we heading for problems or does this all seem to be good? > > TIA for your comments and feedback. > > Jocelyn
Jocelyn, we are using 3 Dell Precision 670 workstations for our AG node. The capture machine has a IVC-200G 4 input video caput card and works fine with Fedora Core 3. It is based on Brooktree bt878 chips which use the bttv kernel module under Linux. Try to look at: http://www.ap-accessgrid.org/linux/ivc.html Ciao, Marco * Marco Pirovano * Universita' Bocconi, Area Sistemi Informatici e Telematici * Piazza Sraffa 11 - 20136 Milano * Tel. +39-025836.3173 Fax. +39-025836.3160
