I know the one you're talking about, it looks really good...nice to hear
the benchmark you're confirming. This is a loaner for the company I'm
working at but if I personally wanted something like this I would look at
what you have. To be honest, local files on a 6Gb/sec SSD would also be
nice.

When you say RGB are you talking about Nuke's native caching format, . ie.
sgi .RGB?


On 29 March 2013 19:38, Diogo Girondi <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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