RAM relation/amount of cores/blade server and BOXX renderfarm server

[Morne]

Hi all

I'm diving head 1st into larger render farm scenarios like blade servers and the RenderFarm options from BOXX and would like to know if there are any relation to the amount of RAM versus the amount of cores that you have?

For example if my workstation has just a single quadcore (4 cores) and I need 8GB on my workstation to render my scene, how much ram would I then need on a duel duel quadcore blade (16 cores)? Will 8GB still be sufficient or would I need 8GB X 4 so 32GB on 1 blade? Also can I run Vista 64bit on this since it has so many cores or would I have to run windows server to be able to use all the cores?

Regards,
Morne

[werticus]

you need to run windows server to use all the cores and you will need the same amount of ram no matter how many cores.
consumer grade windows only see's two sockets at most.