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.
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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.
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