very interesting
Mirko. yes they are indeed very expensive.
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For us there is some saving in Mental
Ray licenses if we use dual processor systems
Leoung
On 7/31/2012 10:30 AM, Sylvain Lebeau wrote:
very interesting Mirko. yes they are indeed very expensive.
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We recently went through the same questions and decided to go with the
XEONs. Space was a concern for us, as well as other factors like Arnold
licenses and maintenance..
It's true that you get more power for the money with i7s. But when you
start rendering frames that take 4 hours or more, it
From: Sylvain Lebeau
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:26 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Renderfarm options
cool to have another chime!
When i say old blades... it doesnt mean they are old x486... ;-) they are
also Dell Poweredge Xeon servers with 6 gig ram.
still very
We did it.
We built our own setup to launch nodes over there and send them scenes
and textures to render and write back the images to our file server.
It's good, but expensive. You don't send any type of jobs either.
We did it for linux and Arnold only. We use it for emergency only, and
it's
Hi Leoung,
i would definetly go with Intel procs if you are ADDING on a
farm/workstation that is already Intel based or vice/versa
i've heard a couple of times that the same frame rendered on different
chips we're giving different results wich could lead into a
nightmare. I dont know
Hi Sly,
Thanks so much for quick responds.
I had a mix of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon previously with no problem,
but that doesn't mean it won't be a problem now.
Did you guys build your own computers for the farm or bought them off
the shelf, are they dual processor systems?
Thanks,
Leoung
We render in old Mental Ray.
We do have a few systems with not enough ram collecting dust .
Have you compare a single intel i7 3930 (6 cores, 12 thread) with
2x Xeon X5650
I spoke to Boxx about their Renderpro 2x Xeon E5 2670 16 cores 32
thread but
ok!
recycle your old blade for comp! ... or for ethernet gagming!!
Quake 2 arena is massivly comming back here ;-)
and no i didnt compare
i buy new shits and hope for the best upon the specs i get.. !!
yeah boxx are very expensive and ... maybe overated... in my humble
euh maybe you didnt read
my last email.
DELL poweredge from a resseller downstairs...
;-)
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Lebeau // SHED
V-P/Visual
effects
supervisor
1410,
RUE STANLEY, 11E
TAGE MONTRAL (QUBEC) H3A 1P8
T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM
Sorry, I missed read, I thought you old
ones were Dells
I will look into them.
On 7/30/2012 11:45 PM, Sylvain Lebeau wrote:
euh maybe you didnt read my last email.
DELL poweredge from a resseller downstairs...
About diferent look on AMD and Intel, I posted that post but it was just a
problem with different Arnold version after all. Fixed that and both AMD
and Intel are rendering same. So no problems there.
As for Xeons.. I made some calculations couple times and for same price of
one dual Xeon 24
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