I have a couple of questions about GIS software, which it seems are a bit hard to find answers to, so I thought that maybe someone here knows or has even tested.
It's about GIS programs.
ESRI's general ArcGIS packages and QGIS, the Open source alternative that seems to be quite good.
Basically what I am wondering is:
1. How good are theese programs at using multicore CPU's
Can they use HT, Xeon tech, or say just 6-8 cores instead of 2 in the program?
2. Anyone knowing about any GIS program that can for visualisation use GPGPU acceleration, or where a bigger and better GPU makes sense?
All this in order to make the programs be responsive when dealing with switching layers and visualing, i,e not doing necessarily lot's of statictical operations.
I didn't post this in the Hardware hangout because it's about the program capabilities more than what hardware is realitistic to use. That's the next questions kind of.
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Regert
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I have a couple of questions about GIS software, which it seems are a bit hard to find answers to, so I thought that maybe someone here knows or has even tested.
It's about GIS programs.
ESRI's general ArcGIS packages and QGIS, the Open source alternative that seems to be quite good.
Basically what I am wondering is:
1. How good are theese programs at using multicore CPU's
Can they use HT, Xeon tech, or say just 6-8 cores instead of 2 in the program?
2. Anyone knowing about any GIS program that can for visualisation use GPGPU acceleration, or where a bigger and better GPU makes sense?
All this in order to make the programs be responsive when dealing with switching layers and visualing, i,e not doing necessarily lot's of statictical operations.
I didn't post this in the Hardware hangout because it's about the program capabilities more than what hardware is realitistic to use. That's the next questions kind of.
/Regert.
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