pic: team 675 has oodles of computers!

[Phoenix Spud]

We are going to set up one of the computer labs at the uni as a render farm. I think in total it will be 15-20 computers and a few laptops for good measure!

We were talking about Avatar, (It is really popular here in Australia, I think because an Aussie is the lead.) and they could render in real time!!! They had THAT many computers working on it.

[KC1AJT]

Originally Posted by fordchrist675

Well make me jealous much. Computing power we had close to the equivalent of 48 computers in there.

haha i built this computer for gaming a year ago and i adapted it to do video edittiting the parts were about $750, operating system was $130, and the case i just bought was $100

[KC1AJT]

Originally Posted by Phoenix Spud

We are going to set up one of the computer labs at the uni as a render farm. I think in total it will be 15-20 computers and a few laptops for good measure!

We were talking about Avatar, (It is really popular here in Australia, I think because an Aussie is the lead.) and they could render in real time!!! They had THAT many computers working on it.

I have no problem rendering in real-time

Oh i think i forgot to mention i have all my videos on a seperate hdd

[Techie590]

why don't you guys get one big computer specifically for your animation team. like a good one loaded up with animation software, and lots of ram and hard drives

[EricH]

Pretty simple, really: Rendering a fairly simple frame or two is pretty quick for one computer, provided that there isn't motion. But when you get to several hundred or several thousand, with motion in between frames, it's going to take a long while for one computer. You get a render farm, it's an overnighter. You get one computer, it's see you in a couple of days and hope it doesn't crash.

[O'Sancheski]

thats totally insane... my team just had two computers built over the summer for CAD but thats only two computers and not the many, many, many computers you guys have

[AJsindri]

nice render farm