20 CPU's
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mrjack
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A render farm is just a bunch of computers hooked up together that render a scene or a whole animation done with 3D modeling programs like Maya or 3DS Max. Usually they use Mental Ray, Turtle 2 or 3, Brazil, Maxwell or Pixar RenderMan for the actual rendering. These programs aren't cheap.
Ya and the budget wasnt big enough....
Still ignoring hehe
Hehe isnt the answer to that pretty simple?
Rambo
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Praetor said:Hehe isnt the answer to that pretty simple?
Hah, well... You know what I meant
He hasn't really said what he wants to do (apart from "Piss all over a 6.4 Ghz CPU" as I recall...).EDIT: Here we go:
malikah said:
Oh, and by the way malikah, don't worry about my other question above, I read your posts stating what you want to do. Nevermind
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YEA_PC_PHONICS
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can some1 show me the link to the thread that preator built an 80,000(pound) computer?
fade2green514
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yea you'd need drivers for them... which im sure will be integrated into the PS3 (when its finally out) somehow.
anyways, if you had twenty cpu's you would come across too many issues... like the fact that its summer and even outside of a computer case it would heat the room up 5 degrees...
and what do you plan on doing that you need 20 cpu's? i think you're better off just getting a fast dual core, say core 2 duo in a couple of days?
you'd need a lot of FSB and i think that hard drive speed would help you more rather than cpu speed.
with 20 cpu's it wouldn't be able to read the hard drive quickly enough to process all the info. i mean screw front side bus... 1066mhz wouldn't bottleneck if you cant even read the info from the hard drive quickly enough.
so in conclusion id go with a dual core, two dual core cpu's, or id wait for a quad core and maybe a motherboard that supports two quad core cpu's... meaning 8 cores.
generally what i mean is that other parts matter just as much as the cpu does. sounds to me like you'll want 4 to 8gb worth of memory, if not more.... that is if you really want 20 cpu's lol you'll need the biggest fastest memory on the market, and say 2x74gb raptors in RAID 0 with the 16mb cache on each one. maybe even 3 or 4x74gb raptors if you can stretch it.
we'll need to know what your budget is, and what you're looking to do with the computer as well.
anyways, if you had twenty cpu's you would come across too many issues... like the fact that its summer and even outside of a computer case it would heat the room up 5 degrees...
and what do you plan on doing that you need 20 cpu's? i think you're better off just getting a fast dual core, say core 2 duo in a couple of days?
you'd need a lot of FSB and i think that hard drive speed would help you more rather than cpu speed.
with 20 cpu's it wouldn't be able to read the hard drive quickly enough to process all the info. i mean screw front side bus... 1066mhz wouldn't bottleneck if you cant even read the info from the hard drive quickly enough.
so in conclusion id go with a dual core, two dual core cpu's, or id wait for a quad core and maybe a motherboard that supports two quad core cpu's... meaning 8 cores.
generally what i mean is that other parts matter just as much as the cpu does. sounds to me like you'll want 4 to 8gb worth of memory, if not more.... that is if you really want 20 cpu's lol you'll need the biggest fastest memory on the market, and say 2x74gb raptors in RAID 0 with the 16mb cache on each one. maybe even 3 or 4x74gb raptors if you can stretch it.
we'll need to know what your budget is, and what you're looking to do with the computer as well.
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SC7
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Drivers, it's not that you need drivers for a CPU, it's that the whole programming architecture is different, you'd need code to be specifically compliled for the Cell's architecture, which, If I suspect, is PowerPC with some slight modifications/CPU extensions.fade2green514 said:
Most of the time, 20 CPUs is kept in a handful of 3U or 4Us or in some wierd cases, 1Us and 2Us (not seen that much, usually 3Us) and that rack sits next to a EC rack (environmental control aka air conditioning) and all that sits next to a UPS (dual in line id imagine) ... heat's not an isssue
Movie encoding, statistical analysis, rendering...
Hehe i asked that question off the bat knowing this woulda been a "empty thread" as it has turned out to be
Hardware: Here you go buddy,
http://www.exadron.com/main/Products.htm
There's tons of other places that offer this stuff, but keep in mind, usually the software is custom made to run through all processors.
As for software, you'll have to dig deeper.
http://www.exadron.com/main/Products.htm
There's tons of other places that offer this stuff, but keep in mind, usually the software is custom made to run through all processors.
As for software, you'll have to dig deeper.