Difference between revisions of "Graphics workstation"

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** [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] (video editor)
 
** [http://www.kdenlive.org/ Kdenlive] (video editor)
 
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** [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] (raster editor)

Revision as of 17:18, 23 November 2012

Our most powerful workstation available to members packs some serious punch:

It's intended for temporary high workloads, especially those requiring accelerated graphics such as graphic design, CAD, video editing, simulation, 3D modeling and game design.

Preemption rule

We only have one of these bad boys, so feel free kick someone off if you have real work to do with it and if they're just playing games or not really taking advantage of the graphics and/or RAM. (you don't need the world's most overpowered web browser and terminal?)

Game development doesn't count as "playing games", such a thing is real work.

Keep in mind that vmsrv is an even better machine to log into (from any workstation or terminal) if you're doing something with bursty CPU load but without a super high RAM demand or need for accelerated graphics, e.g. compiling a few large programs from source.

Return rule

Feel free to play games and even move borrow the machine into the lounge as well -- but remember the preemption rule and *return* it to its normal lab/workshop area when you're done.

Ditto for the nice DVI monitor attached to it, keyboard, mouse, and mousepad.

Software

Personal operating system

Is the stock, shared, Windows and Ubuntu install not to your liking? Do you perhaps have some software personally licensed to you and not for a shared workstation? No problem.

We have a personal workstation service where you can boot your OS and software over our gigabit network, including Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Contact Mark Jenkins <mark@parit.ca>