[vtkusers] ray tracing hardware and benchmarks

[Dr. Daniel James White PhD]

Hi,

We just got a volumepro1000 board for hardware accelerated volume 
rendering on linux, and its working.
Much faster volem rendering than the vtk software ray cast mapper, and 
vtk 2d texture mapping.

It is expensive though.

I am also interested in volume rendering bottle necks in VTK so any 
problems you uncover would be interesting for me also!

I'm using single Athalon1.5, 1Gb Ram, ATIRadeon8500, volmepro1000 
512MB. With redhat linux8.0

cheers

Dan


Message: 5
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:39:36 -0800
From: Eric Engelhard <eric at appliedgenex.com>
To: vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: [vtkusers] hardware and benchmarks

A few weeks ago someone gave me a pair of Xeon 3.16GHz/512/533. This 
does not
happen often. :) I would like to build out a workstation with VTK and 
ray
tracing in mind. Is there a relatively recent VTK hardware/benchmark 
FAQ?
Other than a good pair of CPUs and an appropriate amount of RAM for my 
data
sets, can anyone recommend bottlenecks to look out for and/or graphics
cards?

Thanks,

Eric
Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Cell Biology
Department of biological and environmental science
PO Box  35
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä FIN 40014
Finland
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