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Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) [message #17079]

Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Richard Tyc (richt@sbrc.umanitoba.ca) writes:

> Any benefit in moving into a multi-CPU system (NT or IRIX ) for IDL ?
> does it even make use of multi-processor for rendering etc. ?

I'm told that because of the lack of support in OpenGL for
volume rendering that all object volume rendering in IDL
is done in software. And this software has been written
so that it can take advantage of up to 8 processors.
The key is to use the HINTS keyword on the volume
object to select multi-processor support.

I've no suggestion for machines for you. But I'll tell
you what, I'm awfully sorry I sold that Apple stock last
year. :-(

Cheers,

David

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