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Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) [message #17090]

Mon, 13 September 1999 00:00

Richard Tyc
Messages: 69
Registered: June 1999

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IDL users,

To add to the another similar post, I would like to know from the
experts what system they would buy if they had $10K - $30K (speed being
an important factor) ?

We are running on a SGI O2 R5K, 576Mb RAM and it is pathetically
slow!! Our project has recently received some infusion of capital and I
would like to ask what hardware platform would be ideal ? I am not
opposed to switching over to NT.

The application makes heavy use of object graphics, volume rendering
with cutting planes etc. (eg. render volumes of 512x512x100 with
real-time motion updates using the trackball object)

I was thinking of moving up to a SGI Octane with the R12K CPU (or
multiple CPU).
Any performance comparisons with IDL on the new Pentium III 600 MHz
machines vs. UNIX workstations ?

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. ?

Thanks

Rich

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		Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Richard Tyc on Mon, 13 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Patrick V. Ford on Wed, 15 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Olivier ARCHER on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Richard Tyc on Tue, 21 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: edors on Tue, 21 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Patrick Ford on Fri, 17 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: Michael Werger on Fri, 17 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Best,Fastest platform for IDL 5.2 (NT or UNIX) By: wmc on Fri, 17 September 1999 00:00

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