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Talking Rendering Power

what type of setup do you guys have for network rendering?

for modeling we have two machines with 128mb geforce4's and then about 5 machines ranging from 700mhz-2.4ghz. I brought my desktop down to our workstation and have my laptop to work from home, and we should have a nice array come rendertime. hopefully something close to 15-20 pretty powerful machines

How bout you guys
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1x dual athlon Mp 1.67 ghz with a gforce 4 ti 4200 and 512 ddr

1x dual xeon? maybe not sure yet

2x more computers with 512 ddr and gforce 3-4?

2x 700 mhz with 384 sdram

1x 700 mhz with 128 ddr

plus a couple of surprises hopefully from haworth.

this is a rough guess but matt and chris will probably correct me on the specs of their computers
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beat this..
23 workstations with these specs
Intel Xeon 2.0 ghz
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64 mb video cards
2 x 40 gb hard drives

rendering is going to fly.
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beat this..
23 workstations with these specs
Intel Xeon 2.0 ghz
1 gb 533 mhz rdram
64 mb video cards
2 x 40 gb hard drives

rendering is going to fly.
but how complex will our scenes be. man if we had that kind of power we'd raytrace everyting and jack up the polygon count...just for fun.

p.s. how did you get that kind of power...school bought or sponsor bought?
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Oh yeah? Look what we have so far. Beat THIS!

450 mhz Pentium II with 256 mb RAM

233 mhz (I think) Pentium-something and I don't know the other specs.

Ha!
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p.s. how did you get that kind of power...school bought or sponsor bought?
My school got a new computer lab over the summer.. we put an addition on and they decided "what the heck, lets get some kickin' computers", so they got those.. yesterday i finally got an "OK" from my mentor to use those comps for netrendering.. even tho i've been bugging him since the first day of school.. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH 23 XEON 2GHZ w/ 1 gb of rdram AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

raytrace wont be a problem
who cares about polygons?
motion blur? ha we dont have to fake it anymore
oh yeah, we can use all those inventor models i've made over the years too..
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My school got a new computer lab over the summer.. we put an addition on and they decided "what the heck, lets get some kickin' computers", so they got those.. yesterday i finally got an "OK" from my mentor to use those comps for netrendering.. even tho i've been bugging him since the first day of school.. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH 23 XEON 2GHZ w/ 1 gb of rdram AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

raytrace wont be a problem
who cares about polygons?
motion blur? ha we dont have to fake it anymore
oh yeah, we can use all those inventor models i've made over the years too..
Me thinks old robby boy there outta be letting other teams use his "mad lab skillz" heh, wadda ya think there?

If not...don't be surprised if the south florida teams hunt your school down and the comps are magically gone later....The broward school system dosent exactly lend itself to allow us to buy jacked up machines..
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8 x 1.8 GHz Pentium 4's - main render farm for raytracing and fancy envrionment fx
16 x 667 MHz Pentium 3's - secondary render farm for rendering test scenes and simple renders
1 x 1.4 GHz Athlon - used as a controller for back burner and some modelling
1 x 900 MHz Athlon - used as another controller/modelling machine

this should be fun...

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The parts for my new computer should be here today.

-Dual Athlon MP 2100
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I'll get some pictures of it when it's built.
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I’ve got u all beat!

Duel 1Ghz Processor
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4 120GB Hard Drives
NVIDIA GeForce4 Titanium 128Mb DDR Ram
Gigabit Ethernet

All of that times 42 = a whole LOT of rendering.
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Well, the HD's aren't going to help you, and dual 1GHz is kind of outdated.

On a side note: how the hell did you get 42 of those suckers?

And what type of GF4 titanium? There are 5 different types now.

ti4200, ti4200 8x, ti4400, ti4600, ti4600 8x(ti4800)
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