cheap render farm

2017-01-15 at 4:41 AM UTC

#1

snab_snib African Astronaut

would there be literally anything wrong with getting, say, five of these

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Genuine-Dell-Precision-T7610-Server-Motherboard-Dual-LGA2011-Sockets-NK70N-/262308901765?hash=item3d12d43385:g:FeIAAOSwDuJW0NWy

and ten of these

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MATCHING-PAIR-SR0KX-XEON-E5-2670-8-CORE-2-60GHz-20M-115W-PROC-FOR-HP-SL270S-GEN8-/131567596148?hash=item1ea20a3274:g:xaoAAOSw4GVYP2Kq

for a roughly 3000 dollar 80 core render farm?

2017-01-15 at 4:47 AM UTC

#2

Lanny Bird of Courage

Don't render farms generally load most the processing onto GPUs?

2017-01-15 at 4:55 AM UTC

#3

snab_snib African Astronaut

Originally posted by Lanny Don't render farms generally load most the processing onto GPUs?

no, if they're using Vray they typically have a single box with a stack of tesla's if they're a small gig, or something like an Nvidia visual computing appliance or two. even larger setups with Vray will use many CPU's rather than GPU's when price is no concern. rendering as it stands for most use cases today does not have a scaling advantage with massive parallelism. piles of xeons will outperform piles of teslas for raw bucket computes, with lower latency for hypervis passthrough.

places like pixar and Chaosgroup have fucking multiple thousands of xeons under the hood

2017-01-15 at 5:02 AM UTC

#4

Lanny Bird of Courage

Originally posted by snab_snib piles of xeons will outperform piles of teslas for raw bucket computes

Wut? How? By what metric?

2017-01-15 at 5:03 AM UTC

#5

snab_snib African Astronaut

time and money

2017-01-15 at 5:07 AM UTC

#6

snab_snib African Astronaut

also image quality, in some applications

2017-01-15 at 5:24 AM UTC

#7

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

ywhan and youra f ucnkign bitch

2017-01-15 at 5:48 AM UTC

#8

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

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