If you want to spend money and get Linux box, you might consider getting a PC with nVidia GeForce2 with 128 MB RAM. nVidia provides hardware accelerated OpenGL and kernel drivers for their GeForce family cards. The quality and performance of is excellent.
Suhaib ---- -Original Message----- From: yosuke kimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:09:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [opendx-users] Where to spend money to make it faster? > > Dear list members, > > I'd appreciate if you can share some experience with dx. > > We have IBM's RS/6000 43P Model 260 with 256MB RAM. We use data > explorer > to <100 * <100 * <20 rectangular gridded scaler/2d-vector data. We > use > 3-D isopleths the most. Our problem is that when we use dx > interactively, > rendering takes long time. So we want to figure out where to spend > money > to let the system respond more quickly. > > Our system has 256MB, and graphic card is POWER GXT120P (or 240?) > Graphics > Adapter. We have OpenGL (is this a library or a hardware?), and OS > is AIX > 4.3. > > -- > yosuke kimura > Center for Energy and Environmental Resources > The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
