Re: Renderfarm options

[Leoung O'Young]

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. -- Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM>   Mirko Jankovic Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1:37 AM 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 threads you can get couple i7 comps... at the end it comes that you can get twice the power for same money if going with good i7 machines instead of xeons. There is more power supply's and cases needed, more space for more computers and so on but price difference is huge.  But even that can be solved as any decend computer store should be able to build custom configuration and put couple i7 MBOs into nice rack and connect everything in one packed solution for rendering, 4, 10, 20 nodes per rack... Or if you get full configurations they are good for any workstation as well.  In my opinion Xeon solutions gives you maybe 70-80% speed boost for 200% price increase :) not exact numbers but. Just throw everything on paper first and see what you get.  Cheers! Leoung O'Young Monday, July 30, 2012 11:59 PM 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: Sylvain Lebeau Monday, July 30, 2012 11:45 PM euh maybe you didnt read my last email..... DELL poweredge.... from a resseller downstairs... ;-) Leoung O'Young Monday, July 30, 2012 11:41 PM So where did you get your systems? On 7/30/2012 11:37 PM, Sylvain Lebeau wrote: Sylvain Lebeau Monday, July 30, 2012 11:37 PM 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 opinion. Maybe others could chip in to tell us... i would be very open to hear experiences with those boxxes... sly