renderboxx farms

[Arkitec]

Good Morning ALL!!!

We are looking into the renderboxx farms at our office.... office is moving to laptops (a whole other bad idea) regardless, does anyone have any experience using any of the boxxs'

Heres the link:
http://www.boxxtech.com/Products/ren...m_Overview.asp


Render Farm 10100 Series - exclusively powered by quad-core Intel xeon
renderBOXX Classic 8300 - with quad-core Intel Xeon
Renderboxx classic 7500 - now with quad-core AMD opteron

Any insight with regards to 1.5 and DR, backburner, and how Vray handles rendering... ie, 2 buckets, 6 buckets, etc......

Thank you for any input.....

Arkitec

[werticus]

the opterons will save your power bill and should be cheaper for the same clock speed since none of these things will over clock they are probably a good buy.

[dbuchhofer]

either the intel or the amd's will treat you well. dual quads all the way, pick the fastest processor you can afford, and slap 4 gigs of ram in there.. (or more if you're planning to use a fully 64bit pipeline)

they're quite fast a bit pricey, but they're good for support. (IE: I've had them overnight me pretty much anything i request for the machines while under warranty.)

[werticus]

minimum 8 gigs. id seriously consider 12.

[Arkitec]

how many buckets would be rendering at the same time with these? im still waiting on a response from them.....

thanks.

arkitec

[Dynedain]

how many buckets would be rendering at the same time with these? im still waiting on a response from them.....

thanks.

arkitec

1 Bucket per processor core. If you connect to 4 machines for DR each with 2 quad core processors, then you'll see 4 * 2 * 4 = 32 buckets, plus whatever your local workstation contributes.

[Arkitec]

dynedain,

i just came across a post you had back in 2005 about the renderboxxes... i was seriously just typing you a PM......

Thanks for your input!

Arkitec

[Dynedain]

Hehe... really? which one?

I know they've shifted their product line a bit... the ones offered through that link are similar to IBM's Blade concept, whereas in 2005, they only offered the 1U systems. But really it's just a way to cram more machines into the same amount of rack space.

[Morbid Angel]

I havent worked with boxx render nodes for a long time now. But when we did have them, their support for superrior. So just for that I think its worth it.

Plus the actual machines are rock solid, stable and so on.

[Neilg]

Theyre really good. Had no hardware issues at all after initial setup.

I was DR'ing with 48 buckets this afternoon.

[ene.xis]

lucky bastard!





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[natty]

Sorry couldnt resist ..

[ene.xis]

[jow]

, One Day.....!

[pixelstudio]

pff lucky ba#@$@# heheehe