On Sun, 14 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> That graphics card is a 2d card, which requires rendering to be in
> software.  That system supports a mid-range 3d accelerator, GXT3000P.
> Hardware rendering in DX will take advantage of the OpenGL support in that
> card.  

I am surprised to hear you call GXT3000P a "mid-range"!  Can I call
GXT2000P a "mid-range"?  

> Your workstation will support a 2nd processor, if you don't have one
> already.  Computational operations in DX can run in parallel with the two
> processors.  

I didn't know this...  Thank you to let me know!

> Since your dataset is not that big, my guess without seeing
> any further information, is to get the hardware accelerator.
> 

You mean that the bottle neck, if exists after I correct the setting you
suggested in other mail, should be graphic card or cpu?  I hope tweaking
system configuration magically improve the performance.  Wish me a
luck.  Thank you again.

yosuke kimura


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> yosuke kimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on
> 05/12/2000 07:09:09 PM
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> Subject:  [opendx-users] Where to spend money to make it faster?
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> 
> 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
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yosuke kimura
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

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