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2012-03-02 Thread Neil Scholes
Christ - setting my nuke session to use 8 - not 16 threads - really speeds things up!!! Thats ridiculous! Neil Scholes +44(0) 7977 456 197 www.uvfilms.co.uk ___ Nuke-users mailing list Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk,

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2012-03-02 Thread Rich Bobo
Neil,I know this was a part of a longer thread, but where do you change the threads settings? I'd like to give it a try...Thanks,RichRich Bobo Senior VFX Compositor Email: richb...@mac.com Mobile: 248.840.2665 Web: http://richbobo.comOn Mar 02, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Neil Scholes

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2012-03-02 Thread Howard Jones
What hardware/OS?   Howard From: Neil Scholes n...@uvfilms.co.uk To: Nuke user discussion nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012, 15:21 Subject: [Nuke-users] threads Christ - setting my nuke session to use 8 - not 16 threads - really

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2012-03-02 Thread Neil Scholes
@support.thefoundry.co.uk Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012, 15:21 Subject: [Nuke-users] threads Christ - setting my nuke session to use 8 - not 16 threads - really speeds things up!!! Thats ridiculous! Neil Scholes +44(0) 7977 456 197 www.uvfilms.co.uk

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2012-03-02 Thread Neil Scholes
) 7977 456 197 www.uvfilms.co.uk On 2 Mar 2012, at 15:45, Howard Jones wrote: What hardware/OS? Howard From: Neil Scholes n...@uvfilms.co.uk To: Nuke user discussion nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012, 15:21 Subject: [Nuke-users] threads Christ

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2012-03-02 Thread Peter Pearson
On 02/03/12 16:12, Neil Scholes wrote: Win 7 64bit - raid 0 drive - quadrofx 3800 - 16threads processing What processor? And speeds what up? Reading in, rendering out, general interactivity? Peter -- Peter Pearson, Software Engineer The Foundry, 6th Floor, The Communications Building, 48

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2012-03-02 Thread Neil Scholes
Hi Peter Yes Boxx 8520 Workstation WS DUAL XEON X5550 2.66GHz, 8MB cache, 1333MHz, 6.4 GT/s QPI (Quad-Core) Playback speeds up - and general updates as i skip across the timeline. I wouldn't say twice as fast - but getting there. I havent yet tested this fully - to see what works faster and

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2012-03-02 Thread Randy Little
I did an actual stop watch when we talked about this before and I was getting around 34% by only setting nuke to the actual cores not using virtual cores on a box with westermer xeons. Randy S. Little http://www.rslittle.com On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 09:28, Neil Scholes n...@uvfilms.co.uk wrote:

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2012-02-04 Thread peter
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:59:53 -0800, Randy Little rlit...@rslittle.com wrote: Peter and Deke both said thats not the case anymore and that using the hyper threads since westmer i7 came out would be just as fast. To which I said what you just said. I just wanted to verify it. In fact even in

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2012-02-04 Thread Diogo Girondi
of letting the OS kernel handle the CPU scheduling for the virtual cores between the two processes. -Nathan From: Randy Little Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 4:07 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Threads dual quad xeon 8 cores real 8 virtual. (westmers

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2012-02-04 Thread Randy Little
of letting the OS kernel handle the CPU scheduling for the virtual cores between the two processes. -Nathan From: Randy Little Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 4:07 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Threads dual quad xeon 8 cores real 8 virtual. (westmers

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2012-02-03 Thread Randy Little
ok after the previous conversation I did some test here. on current gen xeon MACS. literally I can render 2 of the same comp with interleaved frames significantly faster then the same comp set to 16 threads. Its not even close. LIke 30% faster to render 2 instances of nuke on the same comp

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2012-02-03 Thread Nathan Rusch
How many physical cores do you have? -Nathan From: Randy Little Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:47 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: [Nuke-users] Threads ok after the previous conversation I did some test here. on current gen xeon MACS. literally I can render 2 of the same comp

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2012-02-03 Thread Nathan Rusch
: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:47 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: [Nuke-users] Threads ok after the previous conversation I did some test here. on current gen xeon MACS. literally I can render 2 of the same comp with interleaved frames significantly faster then the same comp set to 16

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2012-02-03 Thread Deke Kincaid
the two processes. -Nathan From: Randy Little Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 4:07 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Threads dual quad xeon  8 cores real 8 virtual. (westmers?) running 2 instances with 8 shouldn't be faster then a single 16 especially if you take all

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2012-02-03 Thread Diogo Girondi
for the virtual cores between the two processes. -Nathan From: Randy Little Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 4:07 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Threads dual quad xeon 8 cores real 8 virtual. (westmers?) running 2 instances with 8 shouldn't be faster

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2012-02-03 Thread Randy Little
: Randy Little Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 4:07 PM To: Nuke user discussion Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Threads dual quad xeon 8 cores real 8 virtual. (westmers?) running 2 instances with 8 shouldn't be faster then a single 16 especially if you take all the extra memory and i/o thats