[vtkusers] Re: experience with VTK and PC?

[Nigel Nunn]

Hi Michael, 
If your Vtk app needs to calculate the data it renders, 
then consider multi-processor PC motherboards.  Serious 
sciviz apps will be limited by computational bottlenecks 
as well as texture/render speeds.  Your average GeForce 
card can do (theoretical) millions of triangles/sec, but 
the little TCL "spherebench" shatters such pretensions. 
I can recommend DEC's NT OS (also known as WinNT in one 
commercial manifestation) due to its effortless symmetry 
when spreading threads over available processors.  Sadly, 
some institutions only use free software, thus missing out 
on certain professional tools. 
Nigel.