Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
Michael Tewner wrote: ...Or maybe Nvidia Quadro Pro? http://www.nvidia.com/page/workstation.html I don't think that either quadro or tesla will do what the OP wants. Tesla is for gpgpu computations only, no video output at all and it doesn't work in sli mode to empower faster graphics. It's

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Michael Tewner
...Or maybe Nvidia Quadro Pro? http://www.nvidia.com/page/workstation.html On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Michael Tewner wrote: > Have you looked into Nvidia Tesla? I think the grid.org.il people can get > you more info - I think I remember someone selling these in Israel. They > also have Lin

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Michael Tewner
Have you looked into Nvidia Tesla? I think the grid.org.il people can get you more info - I think I remember someone selling these in Israel. They also have Linux drivers. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Omer Zak wrote: > I am looking for advice about selecting motherboard and graphic card/s >

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 23 July 2009 23:57:19 Omer Zak wrote: > I am looking for advice about selecting motherboard and graphic card/s > for a new PC which I plan to acquire; and about suppliers available to > Israelis (whereas in Israel or abroad). I don't know about their availability in Israel, but here in

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
As for a mother board, if you are not planning to overclock it, the intel motherboards are rather good, go with a good chipset, if things haven't changed, something like the p45 is rather good. I'm using a dragontail motherboard on a few systems in uni and they are performing well (ddr2 though)

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Kaplan
The PS3's cell is also know for it's relative difficulty in programming multi-threaded applications for. 6-7 of the SPEs are available to Linux, but Sony implements a hypervisor crippling access to the GPU (which is an Nvidia Geforce 7 type device). The modern GPUs by ATI and Nvidia easily bea

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Omer Zak wrote: > I am looking for advice about selecting motherboard and graphic card/s > for a new PC which I plan to acquire; and about suppliers available to > Israelis (whereas in Israel or abroad). The PS/3 is very highly rated (and unfortunately highly taxed

Re: Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 24 July 2009 06:57:19 Omer Zak wrote: > I am looking for advice about selecting motherboard and graphic card/s > for a new PC which I plan to acquire; and about suppliers available to > Israelis (whereas in Israel or abroad). Well, of the three major brands of graphic cards for PCs: 1.

Looking for advice about selecting hardware for graphics and data visualization

2009-07-23 Thread Omer Zak
I am looking for advice about selecting motherboard and graphic card/s for a new PC which I plan to acquire; and about suppliers available to Israelis (whereas in Israel or abroad). My requirement for the new PC is that it is to render quickly graphics and data visualizations of large data sets, a