I have no idea about AIX upgrade you need to talk to IBM tech support or a slares reppresentative.
Suhaib -----Original Message----- From: yosuke kimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:12:11 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [opendx-users] Where to spend money to make it faster? > > Dear Suhaib, > > Thank you very much for your info. > > However, my situation is that we already have a machine (RS6000), and > we > want to upgrade some hardware (or software if that is a bottle neck) > to > improve performance. I took a look at nVIDA's site, and it seems > like the > chip runs only on Intel compatible CPU. Are you aware of similar > product > which runs on RS6000? > > Also, is 128MB of RAM for the one attached directly to CPU? This is > less than the RAM of our current system. Does this mean memory is > not > that critical for visualization? Our data file is typically tens of > MB. When we animate it, dx sometimes aborts saying that there is not > enough memory, so we have to make the size of file smaller by > selecting > fewer number of data at each grid cell (our data is multi-valued, up > to ~30 > variables). This is another source of frustration. Is there any > recommendation for this as well? > > > yosuke kimura > > > > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- > yosuke kimura > Center for Energy and Environmental Resources > The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
