[Beowulf] visualization machine

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 12:26pm, Mark Hahn wrote

>> Also, AFAIK, neither project supports the professional series of cards 
>> (Quadro/FireGL).
>
> I'm pretty sure I normally just install the unified NV driver for quadros.

Sure, but that driver doesn't do hardware-accelerated 3D.

> (course, afaikt the "pro" distinction is just marketing spew.)

The nvidia man page lists features only supported on Quadro cards (and 
which I've also seen listed as used by "pro" apps (high-end CAD/CAM, 
etc)).  But I've also never seen a benchmark showing how much (if any) 
difference they make.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF