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48 Chapter 4: Using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards
Using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards
This section describes how to use multiple Matrox Meteor-II
boards. When a grab buffer is selected for display, grabbed
images are displayed on the VGA, live or pseudo-live,
depending on the operating computer and the position of the
windows. Note that the PCI bandwidth is limited, and heavy
usage can affect the data transfer in computers using multiple
boards.
Multiple board installation
Installing multiple PCI
and CompactPCI
cards
Install each additional Matrox Meteor-II board, PCI and
CompactPCI form factors, as you installed the first board (refer
to Chapter 2). In other words, place each additional board in an
empty slot. For the PCI form factor, ensure that the installed
boards avoid the CPU heat sink.
Theoretically, you can have as many as 16 Matrox Meteor-II
PCI/CompactPCI boards installed in your computer at one
time; this number is, however, limited by the number of empty
slots in your computer and, for simultaneous grabs, by the
available bandwidth of your computer (discussed later in this
chapter).
Using MIL-Lite, you have to allocate a MIL system for each
board and allocate the resources of each MIL system.