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On 11/14/2011 11:29 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Whitney_Roessler@Dell.com">Whitney_Roessler@Dell.com</a> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet
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MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">One of my
customers at IUPUI will be utilizing the Chimera software
and is looking to purchase a 3-D capable system. I was
wondering if you could provide to me the minimum or
recommended hardware requirements to run this software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The answer to your question depends on how much data the customer
wishes to view at one time, whether or not they wish to view their
data in stereo, and whether or not they wish to make large
animations. Look at the Chimera Benchmarks web page, <a
href="http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/benchmarks">http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/benchmarks</a>,
for some idea of the relative capabilities of various systems.
You'll notice that there are very few benchmark results for current
systems, so perhaps you could run the benchmarks on various Dell
configurations and submit the results, that way other people could
get an idea of what to buy.<br>
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Personally, I prefer a workstation with a high end 3D graphics card,
but a gaming system might be more than adequate. Stay away from
older Intel motherboard graphics, 2D graphics cards, and entry level
3D graphics cards. And only get a laptop where the graphics driver
can be updated with the GPU vendor's driver (Dell and all other
laptop vendors are very bad at updating the graphics drivers on
their support sites and lots of Chimera bugs have been solved by
updating the graphics driver).<br>
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Hope this helps and feel free to ask more questions,<br>
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Greg<br>
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