On 21/10/2005, at 7:52 AM, John Langkals wrote:
> Hello AG-Tech,
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> What motherboard model drives your single node Access Grid? What
> capture card, video, and audio cards you have found to be good
> performers?
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> I have received reports from the OSC a board from Tyan Model: S2895
> Thunder K8WE has great promise:
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> http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?
> ProductCode=241864&affiliate=yahoo
John,
I've been drooling over the prospect of having that mobo for a while
now, but haven't been in a position to build a system based on it.
Its seems to have everything needed:
- dual PCI-Express video slots, each with dual output cards,
should give 4 projector/console outputs - _all_ at high video bandwidth
- built in audio
- gigabit networking
- dual CPU
- 1x 32bit PCI slot for a 4-input capture card (IVC200 at http://
www.voxtechnologies.com/Industrial_PC_Peripherals/ivc200.htm)
and/or better still:
- PCI-X slots for a 64bit 4-input capture card (LFG4 at http://
www.activesilicon.co.uk/products_fg_lfg.htm)
Although it can be run with a 64 bit OS, remember that OpenOffice
(which we use for SharedPresentation on Linux based nodes) isn't
available for 64bit systems yet, so your AG capabilities may be
limited. For now, install a 32bit OS (I think the Opteron CPU's can
do either 32 or 64 bit).
chris
Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350
QPSF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland
