I just checked 10 bit log dpx files, it is flying! Just some basic
operations afterwards, blur, grade, roto shape premulted, transform, plus.
Also I tried a gpu accelerated denoise. Pretty impressive. Maybe we all
need to go back to 10 bit log files for storage :) 16 bit dpx was also very
fast.


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On 27 March 2013 23:52, Michael Bogen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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>
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> 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.
>>
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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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