Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:47:13 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual CPUs for OpenGL any good? Message-ID: <20010117084713.M7240@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200101171453.PAA43156@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:53:35PM %2B0100 References: <200101171453.PAA43156@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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* Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> [010117 06:54] wrote: > Sure, this is not a Windows NT group here but I know a lot > of expertise hanging around here: We have an application that runs > under NT and does a lot of OpenGL. CPU load is high. It's a single process, > probably single thread application. I'm wondering if I should invest > in CPUs or in Graphics accelerators (video card). > > Could a monolithic application benefit from multi CPU at all? > Could driver code run on a different CPU while the other CPU is running for > the application? > > Comments? Adding a dedicated gfx CPU (video card) is probably the best idea. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the messagehelp
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