Grambo (graham++at++beast)
Thu, 2 Feb 1995 08:02:48 -0800
There are lots of customers who are successfully doing this now, gotcha's
include: More gfx pipes require more front end processing to feed. So as well
as scaling up the back end, one should scale up the front end as well. A
common process model is having one system wide app and a cull and draw per
process requiring 7 processors, this would leave the 8th available for handling
UNIX or networking issues. Yes applications share the same RAM. THere is one
pool of physical memory, but it is possible to subdivide that into smaller
pools for specific tasks. Other potential gotcha's may include syncing the
video of all output channels together (if required), this is easy with
Performer, but a little more cumbersome when mixing and matching Performer and
non Performer tasks.
Graham
P.S. (call us or your local office if there are configuration issues)
On Feb 1, 3:47pm, Kevin R. McClure wrote:
> Subject: Three Pipeline Upgrade
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> Dear SGI/PERFORMER PEOPLE:
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> I am thinking about configuring my ONYX RE4 to a three pipeline system.
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> Do you see any problems running multiple Performer applications on the
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> same machine and if so what are they? Do applications share the same RAM?
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> What do we need to buy in hardware to enable us to do this ?
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> email: Kevin McClure<mcclure++at++chris.gcs.redstone.army.mil>
> phone: (205) 842-7290
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>-- End of excerpt from Kevin R. McClure
--"It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." , Happy, happy, Joy, joy...
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