Tested one in a z820 with Resolve and it was crazy fast. Made everything very 
fluid using dpx and I/o for cache and storage. Didn't get chance to try nuke 
but it was mighty impressive if not a touch small at 340GB.



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On 29 Mar 2013, at 19:48, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> I
> 
> 
> 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
>> 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.
>>>> 
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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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