[Paraview] Advice on graphics cards

[Dave Partyka]

Quadro drivers tend to come with optimizations for commercial applications
like AutoCAD. VTK/ParaView just make standard GL calls so you won't gain
anything by using a similarly configured Quadro over a GeForce card. On the
other hand, Quadro's tend to have faster GPUs and more memory. If you don't
need lots of GPU memory, GeForce cards in general offer a pretty good
cost/performance tradeoff.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Can anyone comment on whether there is a performance difference between the
> GeForce or Quadro?  Some sites say the Quadro is better for CAD applications
> but is this true for ParaView?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
> On 1 September 2010 07:23, Kumar, Shree <shreekumar at hp.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *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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