Hi Deke,

That all makes sense, I figured I should try Cineon/DPX out of curiosity
for the exact reasons you state, although it's not part of our pipeline.
It'll be interesting to compare notes about the card performance as a
whole, though.

I wonder if it's possible to at some point get exr's to decompress on the
gpu?

Michael


On 27 March 2013 18:47, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> I'm actually testing this right now as Fusionio just gave us a bunch of
> them.  Early tests reveal that with dpx it's awesome but with openexr zip
> compressed file it it is spending more time with compression, not sure if
> it is cpu bound or what(needs more study but its slower).  Openexr
> uncompressed files though are considerably superfast but of course the
> issue is that it is 18 meg a frame.  These are single layer rgba exr files.
>
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Michael Garrett <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I'm evaluating one of these at the moment and am interested to know if
>> others have got it working with Nuke nicely, meaning, have you been able to
>> really utilise the insane bandwidth of this card to massively accelerate
>> any part of your day to day compositing?
>>
>> So far, I've found it has no benefit when localising all Reads in a
>> somewhat heavy comp, or even playing back a sequence of exr's or deep
>> files, compared to localised sequences on a 10K Raptor drive also in my
>> workstation - hopefully I'm missing something big though, this is day one
>> after all.
>>
>> There may be real tangible benefits to putting the Nuke cache on it
>> though - I'll see how it goes.
>>
>> I'm also guessing that as gpu processing becomes more prevalent in Nuke
>> that we will see a real speed advantage handing data from a card like this
>> straight to the gpu.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
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