There is a cheaper alternative from OCW that costs around 1.3k for 960GB.
I'm testing it and so far so good, approx 720MB/s sustainable on my tests.
Enough for one stream of 2K full-app 12bit RGB.

It's not as fast as most of FusionIO boards but for it's price I'm happy
with it.


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Simon Blackledge <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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