HP sv6 manual Hardware Configurations, Three or Four 3D Pipes Per Channel

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Table 2-1	Hardware Configurations
		Number of Display Channels
	3D pipes	1 channel	2 channel	3 channel
	/channel
	3**	4 workstations	NA	NA
	4	5 workstations	10 workstations	15 workstations
	7 **	8 workstations	NA	NA
	8	9 workstations	18 workstations	27 workstations
	16	17 workstations	34 workstations	51 workstations

**Mini-sv6 configurations have slightly lower performance because their second master node doubles as a 3D render node using its 2D HP fx10 graphics card.

Given enough 3D pipelines, both acceleration and image quality can be achieved. With 16 systems, the screen can be split into four screen rectangles. Four workstations can be assigned for each quadrant to produce four samples per pixel from full scenes jittered by sub-pixel values. The digital compositor can both average these values into a single value and recombine the four quadrants into a single image. The possible configurations include:

Table 2-2	Three or Four 3D Pipes Per Channel
	Screen Rectangles	Pixel Samples*	Mode
	1	4	Accumulate (fastest)
	4	1	Accelerate (best image)

Table 2-3	Seven or Eight 3D Pipes Per Channel
	Screen rectangles	Pixel Samples*	Mode
	1	8	Accumulate (fastest)
	2	4	Mixed
	8	1	Accelerate (best image)

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