<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear list memers,</div><div><br></div><div>My name is Visit, a newbie of this forum. I have been using MapServer for at least 4 years now on many research projects. It has served my research projects quite well. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Recently I am using MapServer to develop a real-world enterprise web application.</div>
<div>I am developing a web-based GIS application using MapServer to serve thousands of users, and one of overheads of the system is on the map rendering provided by MapServer.</div><div><br></div><div>At the moment the server I use to run MapServer doesn't have a graphic card (i.e. GPUs), but I wonder if I really want high performance of map-rendering from MapServer, can a graphic card (i.e. GPUs) equipped with the server enhance MapServer's map rendering speed and hence improve its map service speed?</div>
<div><br></div><div>As a graphic card contains hundreds of GPU cores, e.g. NVDIA CUDA platform, and each core can compute and draw polygons in parallel, so I think this can improve the speed of map rendering (if used with MapServer) substantially. Do I understand this correctly?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your advice in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Visit Hirankitti Ph.D.</div><div><br></div><div>Intelligent Communication and Transportation Lab</div><div>King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang</div>
<div>Thailand</div><div><br></div></div>