G'day John I am not sure if this would help, but for the CQU Access Grids, I have been using dual head NVIDIA video cards.
For the CQU Rockhampton Access Grid (http://hpc.cqu.edu.au/accessgrid.html#ROCK), I use: 1 NVidia Quadro4 AGP Graphics Card; and 1 NVidia Quadro4 PCI Graphics Card For this I have able to produce a 4 screen display, one node operators desktop and 3 projection screen display. I am running this configuration currently under Fedora Core 3. Cheers, Jason. -----Original Message----- From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of John Langkals Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 7:28 AM To: 'Fred Dech'; 'Christoph Willing' Cc: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov Subject: RE: [AG-TECH]Video cards Hello Fred, Chris, and AG-Tech, Have you heard of anyone successfully using two NVIDIA multi-monitor cards such as GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 PCI-Express or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 Graphics Cards? On the other hand, are there any recommendations besides Matrox video cards for requirements of a three video card connection, two projectors(PCI)/one control monitor(AGP)running under FC4 or WinXP node? Thank you very much for all your help, John Langkals -----Original Message----- From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Fred Dech Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:48 AM To: Christoph Willing Cc: John Langkals; ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov Subject: Re: [AG-TECH]Video cards we have a couple nodes using Xentera GT 4 cards on Windows. they work. but we have had a problem with the VICs chewing up more than their fair share of the processors. whether this symptom is directly related to the Xentera, as we suspect, since we have another identical node using multiple display cards, two Matrox G200 Muti-Monitor one NVIDIA Qaudro FX 500 which handles itself quite well, we haven't ascertained for sure. we haven't tested swapping out the Xenteras for a couple of important reasons. and the problem on those systems has not been a priority as of yet. --fred On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:46PM, Christoph Willing said: > > On 31/08/2005, at 7:15 AM, John Langkals wrote: > > >Hello AG Tech, > > > >Has anyone used Xentera GT video cards in the display box of your > >Access Grid? > > John, > > We have a node here in another department at UQ which is using a > Xentera GT card. They found it impossible to achieve a single desktop > across the four outputs under Linux (their first choice) and their > current status is: "We have it working under windows, but even that was > a stretch." > > > chris > > > Christoph Willing Ph: +61 7 3365 8350 > QPSF Access Grid Manager > University of Queensland
