Setting your disk cache and your local cache to the card makes nuke very fast. Mostly dpx files. Thanks Deke for the tip about the Exr.
michaelb mbfx.me On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> ----- >> Deke Kincaid >> Creative Specialist >> The Foundry >> Mobile: (310) 883 4313 >> Tel: (310) 399 4555 - Fax: (310) 450 4516 >> >> The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd. >> Registered in England and Wales No: 4642027 >> >> >> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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