RE: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Angus Davidson
From my experience It might be worth mentioning that Octane 3.0 will have both GPU/CPU rendering. Its Network rendering is incredibly easy to use and is very efficient. Also the stand alone app is great for folks who use alembics as part of their pipeline. I find it easier to tweak to get what

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Tim Leydecker
Hey Matt, it´s good to know that the island´s power supply lines have been tuned to successfully survive short 3000W kettle power drains, imagine a world without just a quick cup of tea. That´s like the Commonwealth never existed. I see why you want to have an UPS. Seriously, having an unreal

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Tim Leydecker
Hi Morton, now that information is trickling in about Redshift3D would you mind sharing how you are rating Arnold and Vray in comparison? How about Clarisse as the new kid on the block? In my understanding, Arnold has an edge when it comes to supported 3d application plattforms and the user

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Chad Briggs
We are eyeballing a new farm next year (about that time again) and this thread has been great. I do have a few questions as we are currently using arnold for everything and don't have much experience with Redshift. 1. everyone keeps chiming in on how you want the graphics card to have as muc

Re: Momentum setup ?

2015-08-06 Thread Christian Keller
Try another software package like Houdini for that, or be prepared for maybe more pain than you'd expect. Momentum is a bit p.i.t.a dir complex Thinges Sorry couldn't resist ;) Every second time you playback it works. Sim is never the same you press the button, always cache it, otherwise you'll

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Tim Crowson
Looks like you guys have gone into all the relevant details already, so I don't have much to add. I will only strongly suggest that you get cards with as much RAM as you can afford. Personally, if I were building a small farm, I wouldn't even bother with the 970s, simply because of their ram l

Re: I'm back !

2015-08-06 Thread Francois Lord
oh, hi Gmail! On 06-Aug-15 18:20, Gmail wrote: :) Olivier

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2015-08-06 Thread Gmail
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Re: Subscribing to another mail address ?

2015-08-06 Thread olivier jeannel
Thank's Sven :) Le 07/08/2015 00:14, Sven Constable a écrit : you need to send it to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com sven -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of olivier jeannel Sent: Thursday

RE: Subscribing to another mail address ?

2015-08-06 Thread Sven Constable
you need to send it to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com sven -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of olivier jeannel Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 10:14 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com S

Re: Subscribing to another mail address ?

2015-08-06 Thread Sebastien Sterling
It shouldn't take that long. hang in there ! On 6 August 2015 at 21:14, olivier jeannel wrote: > Hi again, > > I'd like to change my mail adress to keep following the Softimage list. > I've send a "subscribe" mail to softimage@listproc.autodesk.com, I'm > still waiting for a validation... > How

Subscribing to another mail address ?

2015-08-06 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi again, I'd like to change my mail adress to keep following the Softimage list. I've send a "subscribe" mail to softimage@listproc.autodesk.com, I'm still waiting for a validation... How long is it suppose to be ? My new adress will be facialdel...@gmail.com Maybe tomorrow, fingers crossed.

Momentum setup ?

2015-08-06 Thread olivier jeannel
Hi gang, I'm doing simple tests for an upcoming job that should involve destruction stuff, like walls and houses. So, I gave a try to Momentum and Implosia. I remember there was an old Momentum + ice setup or a tutorial, I think by Yujaheo on vimeo. It was a cracking ground that was gradualy c

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Mirko Jankovic
as much as I know those risers and extensions can't really support full speed PCIE, it would lower PCI speed significantly for each card, now not sure about other render engines but for Redshift it is good to keep at least at speed of PCIE3.0@x8 or PCIE2.0@x16 On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Angu

RE: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Angus Davidson
Or use something like this http://amfeltec.com/products/gpu-oriented-cluster/ Kind regards Angus From: Mirko Jankovic [mailto:mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 August 2015 02:55 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup? yep exactly

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Mirko Jankovic
yep exactly like the one on the image :) a lot of nice space and rad placeholder down at the bottom. also on the back of the case same position you can place even more fans for fresh air intake and to go straight over those rads and out. but this is going more into workstation build area now On Th

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Matt Morris
The cheapest option would be any brand with the reference design coolers, which are pretty much straight from nvidia. They push the heat out of the rear of the case, you can set a custom fan profile to try to keep them from throttling. The water-cooled version looks great, and the temps are fantas

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Along these lines - which 980ti would you guys recommend? I found this an EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Hybrid which has built-in watercooling and a separate fan to mount in the back of the cabinet - pretty cool. http://www.proshop.dk/Grafikkort/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-Hybrid-6GB-2493470.html (danish s

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Eric Turman
Depends on which card you end up going with. But even a 970 x 4 will draw 900 leaving you with 600 room for the rest. And that could be fine initially. But consider the fact that power supply ubits become less efficient over time and will start to output less wattage. On Thu, Aug 6, 2015, 6:31 AM

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Mirko Jankovic
You don't need anything bigger as a matter of fact I'm running that exact PSU for 4x Titan X, and before them it was pushing 4x Titans. Nothing more is needed. 1200W is cutting it a bit too close but 1500 is perfectly enough. On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Morten Bartholdy wrote: > Thanks guys

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Thanks guys for the very comprehensive walkthrough on this topic - this list is still a goldmine! :) So for a 4 GPU workstation setup - would you suggest something like the Corsair AX1500i or should it be bigger? Morten Den 6. august 2015 kl. 12:49 skrev Matt Morris : > The conversation was

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Matt Morris
The conversation was aimed towards renderfarms rather than workstations though, and I imagine running a render job per gpu rather than per node, so that the scaling per gpu is much better (ie 100% minus maybe a small hit on the cpu usage being shared). Could be run headless so no need for a display

Re: OT'ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup?

2015-08-06 Thread Tim Leydecker
Would you guys find the 980Ti hitting the sweetspot between price and performance? How about connectors and power supply? The 970 is running on 2x6pin, e.g. a maximum of 150 Watts plus the 75 Watts from the slot, a 225 Watts total. The 980ti is mostly 1x6pin and 1x8pin, the 1x8pin offering 1