[Paraview] opinion on new machine for visualization

[Ricardo Reis]

  Hi all

  This may step out of the paraview only related stuff so if someone 
considers this noise please reply me personally. My lab as some money to 
buy a new machine, 8 Gb RAM, 2 x dual core or 1x quad core, not decided 
yet. Anyway, I'm thinking, for visualization purposes and using paraview, 
what would be the best option:

  1 graphic board, super-duper state-of-the-art

  or

  2 graphic boards?

  My idea is that if I'm working with very large data sets, there is a 
problem not only rendering but also processing the data and, with only one 
graphic board, lauching parallel paraview isn't very good (at least in my 
experience).

  I wait your thoughts on it.

  thanks for input,

  Ricardo Reis

  'Non Serviam'

  PhD student @ Lasef
  Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Turbulence
  http://www.lasef.ist.utl.pt

  &

  Cultural Instigator @ Rádio Zero
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