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  4. Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 12:10:22 -0800
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  12. From: laurie <laurie@digital-animations.co.uk>
  13. To: lightwave@e55.webcom.com
  14. Subject: Render Farms and Screamer Net
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  24. Greetings from happy Scotland
  25.  
  26. We are looking to purchase some new machines to build ourselves a render =
  27. farm. There are a couple of points that I would appreciate some input on =
  28. if anybody has any prior experience. At the moment all our machines are =
  29. Intel based (8 x Pentium P5 - 133Mhz - 64Mb plus 6 lower specced =
  30. machines).We are considering Intel based machines for our upgrade. I =
  31. know that Alpha machines may pack more punch but bear in mind we would =
  32. then have to buy Alpha versions of LW and all plugins that we use (some =
  33. of which aren't currently available) so I don't think that the Alpha =
  34. option would be cost effective for us (I could be wrong)
  35. =20
  36. 1) What is more important in a screamer node machine Processor or RAM =
  37. (this may at first sound silly but.......) i.e - Pentium (P5) 150Mhz =
  38. 128Mb Ram    - vs - Pentium Pro (P6) 150Mhz 64Mb RAM=20
  39.  
  40. 2) Do Dual and Quad processor boards speed up Lightwave (is it =
  41. multithreaded)
  42.  
  43. 3)  Are there any network rendering addons that can cope with =
  44. distributed rendering. (i.e send a test render to the render farm and =
  45. twelve machines all think about that one frame - that 20 minute frame =
  46. returns in 1.5 minutes ) Wishfull thinking I guess.....=20
  47.  
  48. 4) In 3DS we used to be able to send a scene to the render farm then go =
  49. back into Editor and go back to modelling/surfacing etc...Can Screamer =
  50. Net handle this (i.e  A test frame is rendering on the Screamer Net and =
  51. your machine (the Host) is back working on another scene.
  52.  
  53. thanks
  54.  
  55. Laurie
  56. laurie@digital-animations.co.uk
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