vray and dual-quad core xeon

[Markus]

Hi,

if you would buy such a workstation, will vray be using all 8 cores in the system? or do you need an additional vray lic?

did anyone tested this ? how is vray scaling along all 8 cores ?

cheers,
markus

[Candelero]

V-Ray will EAT all its power, so it will work absolutely on 100%.
Go for it!


Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[Morbid Angel]

vray internally supports upto 256 cpus, if im not mistaken. It should perform just fine, and I think other users in the forum has got such rig going already, check out the benchmark thread.

[vlado]

vray internally supports upto 256 cpus, if im not mistaken. It should perform just fine, and I think other users in the forum has got such rig going already, check out the benchmark thread.

In fact, there is no fixed limit V-Ray will use as many cores as it finds.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Intrinsia]

We have a dual quad core and it works beautifully with Vray. Haven't encountered any problems yet.

[Morbid Angel]

1024 buckets on screen....that would be sick

[jacksc02]

most buckets i have had so far is 54!

[Paul Oblomov]

most buckets i have had so far is 54!

OMG
Plz, share dozen of 'em with me

[jacksc02]

no! i like my buckets

[Amer]

i have 44 buckets...SO sexy!

[Markus]

wow, thanks for all the replies sounds promising...

another question. For using DR with vray I think I have read that it is limited to 10 cpus per lic. So for working with DR and two dual-quad-cores you need two full vray lics, while a 16 core system just need one? Is that correct ?

thanks again,
Markus

[jacksc02]

markus, each computer is a connection so if you have 2 dual quads that is 2 connection which leaves you with 8 more!

[vlado]

another question. For using DR with vray I think I have read that it is limited to 10 cpus per lic. So for working with DR and two dual-quad-cores you need two full vray lics, while a 16 core system just need one? Is that correct?

Not quite; the limitation is on the number of render nodes as machines, no matter how many CPUs.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Markus]

thanks for the answer vlado, that is great news again.

[Da_elf]

so if you can find some way to cram 100 processors into a machine you can get 10,000 buckets with the 10 computer limit for DR (that might be 2x2 pixel buckets hehehe) i know with linux you can cluster machines. its kinda like DR where all machines work together. i wonder if windows can cluster and if vray would see a cluster as 1 or many systems