[Paraview] Advice on graphics cards

[Kumar, Shree]

Yes, there are ways to "spoof" monitors on nvidia cards. I have used two of them,

a. Get an EDID file of a display device and use that in the config file (see attached file xorg-forced-monitor-EDID.conf for an example).

b. Use a modeline (see attached file xorg-forced-monitor-modeline.conf for an example).

The config files use more options than necessary - but that's because they are auto-generated.

For documentation on the options, refer to /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt

HTH
-- Shree

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From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Paul McIntosh
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:16 AM
To: 'Paul Edwards'; 'paraview'
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Advice on graphics cards

Hi Paul,

I think you are stuck with eitther a Tesla or Quadro on a cluster. This is due to the ability to configure those cards to work without a display (see the release notes for the latest drivers though).

I'd be interested to hear otherwise as we have a few GTX280 nodes that are currently just used for CUDA. Maybe there is a way to "spoof" a monitor another way?

Cheers,

Paul


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From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Paul Edwards
Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2010 12:43 AM
To: paraview
Subject: [Paraview] Advice on graphics cards

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a graphics cards to use for a linux cluster running ParaView?  And, does anyone know how a GeForce card compares to a Quadro of a similar spec?

Thanks in advance,
Paul
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