[vtkusers] VTK Performance and SMP

[Cameron N. Perry]

My programming skills are nowhere good enough to understand what it is
I'm looking at on the manual pages; we have to hire somebody to do our
VTK programming. I can see that there is at least *some* parallel
functionality, but what does this all mean (i.e. vtkParallelFactory,
etc)? How much does this contribute to visualization applications as a
whole?

The reply below still does not answer the other questions (see below).
Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks!
Cameron

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:00, REGAT-BARREL Aurélien wrote:
> Hi,
> You should have a look at vtkParallel to get more infos.
> Greets.
> 
> "Cameron N. Perry" <cnperry at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I'm not too familiar with VTK quite yet, but I have a few
>         questions
>         which some of you may be able to answer regarding VTK and
>         system
>         performance. My lab is planning on purchasing a cluster and
>         your answers
>         will greatly help us decide what configurations are best.
>         
>         1) Is SMP native to VTK (i.e. no additional SMP programming
>         req'd)?
>         2) When using SMP, how large/small is the performance increase
>         with a
>         second processor?
>         3) Are there any stability issues with SMP (sorry. I have to
>         ask)?
>         4) What processor seems to have the best performance with VTK
>         (i.e. P4,
>         Opteron, Xeon, etc.)?
>         5) How efficient is VTK's memory management?
>         
>         
>         Thanks much! I really appreciate your help.
>         Cameron Perry