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From: Test <dav...@af...> - 2000-09-22 19:07:13
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-----Original Message----- From: do...@cy... [mailto:do...@cy...] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:57 PM To: dav...@af... Subject: Re: remove beb...@af... Test writes: > > Capt Beberwyck no longer works here. Please remove this address for from > your mailing list. Hi - You'll need to contact the vis5d mailing list; I didn't mail directly to you. Regards - don > > Bill Hibbard writes: > > If your graphics card offer hardware accelerated OpenGL you > > may want to try out Hummingbird Exceed 3D: > > (http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html) > > This is a commercial X-Server software with OpenGL extensions. > > > > First of all: it works. > > Adding to Bill's comments, the Hummingbird solution really can work > quite nicely. I've run it over 100BTX from our Onyx2 to an SGI320/NT > system as well as various IBM thinkpads, all with good success. I've > observed 200K+ tris/sec sustained performance with the 320. Of course, > in this mode all of the geometry is flowing over the wire and eventually > that saturates things. I've worked on my NT box in my office on > some pretty large projects without suffering unduly (eventually > one treks to the Onyx2 console 'tho ;-). One example: > > http://www.scd.ucar.edu/vg/CAT > > On very large datasets I've occasionally observed instability in the Exceed > X server but could never pin it down enough to file a report. YMMV. > > don > -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* * Don E. Middleton, do...@uc... * * Head, Visualization & Enabling Technologies Section * * Scientific Computing Division * * National Center for Atmospheric Research * * http://www.scd.ucar.edu/vg * * PO Box 3000; Boulder, Co. 80307-3000 * * Voice:303-497-1250 Cell:303-817-1249 FAX:303-497-1848 * *----------------------------------------------------------------* |