Re: particle simulation and video cards

Date : Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:26:57 -0700
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Bradley Gabe <withanar(at)stanwinston.com>
Subject : Re: particle simulation and video cards
Strange situations like these merit strange questions:
What about caching? Are you caching locally on you notebook and doing network caches on the workstation? Or is the notebook also on the network?

boxx has 2 procs.. ( Intel Xeon 3ghz)

my laptop is 5 years old.. so i think that answers the dual core 
question..(just in case: P4 1.7ghz i gig ram)

Simon Pickard wrote:

> Is the Box(x) dual, or more cpu, and the laptop single core?
> Just wondering if there's some thrashing between cores going on with 
> the Box(x).
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>
>
>
> On 30/04/07, Todd Alan Peleg <todd(at)theholdingcell.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a great one..
>>
>> see if anyone can verify this happening for them.. (and that excludes
>> you, Eric)
>>
>> the box(x) i am on at work has an nvidia quadro fx 3000 in it with 256
>> MB of RAM
>>
>> my laptop is 5 years old and has an nvidia geforce4 440 (to go) in it
>> with 32mb of ram.
>>
>> particle simulations (on ANY simulation) are about 3 times faster on my
>> laptop..
>>
>> anyone got an answer for that one????
>>
>> just to preface:
>> my laptop is nowhere near the box(x) i am working on at the office..
>> so.. its not hardware related to anything other than video card.. and
>> YES.. i have tried the most current driver, the oldest driver, AND the
>> softimage recommended driver..
>>
>> which by the way.. none of which are on my laptop.
>>
>> todd
>>
>>
>>
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