Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the hardware-to-lust-after dept.
BlackHat linked us to IBMs
Deep View, a
research system for rendering and other advanced applications (Q3A). The
PC is 8 Linux boxes in a rack, which is needed to generate the content for the
T221 display which operates at 3840x2400.
Re:Bandwidth...
by
be-fan
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· Score: 5, Informative
Umm, just over 8 gigabits per second is nothing. That's about 1 GB/sec, and an 8x AGP (2 GB/sec) graphics adapter (Radeon 9700) would have no trouble handling that data rate. Besides, you don't have to pump *all* of that data over the AGP bus. You send only display lists and textures and whatnot over the AGP bus. The local graphics card (where the actual data rate would hit near 1 GB/sec) has (on a Radeon 9700) about 20 GB/sec of bandwidth.
-- A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Which is why you use an LCD...
by
MosesJones
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· Score: 4, Informative
Films are 24Hz, but you don't worry about that, and using an LCD screen means that you don't get the blurring and flashing of a normal monitor.
-- An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Re:56 Hz? (LCD)
by
qnonsense
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· Score: 2, Informative
It's an LCD. It's not like a monitor that flickers. The glow is fully solid, it's just to color of the pixels that refresh at 56Hz. That's plenty fast when the whole damn thing ain't flashing at you.
-- There comes a time in every man's life when he must say, "No mother! I do not want any more Jell-O!"
Slashdot Mirror
An article about the methods IBM used to cluster eight dual processor Linux workstations to provide the necessary graphics power.
Movies of Deep View in action.
Umm, just over 8 gigabits per second is nothing. That's about 1 GB/sec, and an 8x AGP (2 GB/sec) graphics adapter (Radeon 9700) would have no trouble handling that data rate. Besides, you don't have to pump *all* of that data over the AGP bus. You send only display lists and textures and whatnot over the AGP bus. The local graphics card (where the actual data rate would hit near 1 GB/sec) has (on a Radeon 9700) about 20 GB/sec of bandwidth.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Films are 24Hz, but you don't worry about that, and using an LCD screen means that you don't get the blurring and flashing of a normal monitor.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
It's an LCD. It's not like a monitor that flickers. The glow is fully solid, it's just to color of the pixels that refresh at 56Hz. That's plenty fast when the whole damn thing ain't flashing at you.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must say, "No mother! I do not want any more Jell-O!"