Nvidia GPU Appliance Cuts Render from Hours to Minutes

[glorybound]

Nvidia GPU Appliance Cuts Render from Hours to Minutes http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/nv...te,1-2123.html

[AlexP]

Hmm how much is one of those?

[vlado]

Nvidia GPU Appliance Cuts Render from Hours to Minutes http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/nv...te,1-2123.html

Here is a short video that shows me using one VCA box to render with V-Ray RT GPU in Maya, 3ds Max and V-Ray Cloud:

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

Hmm how much is one of those?

When they were announced in the spring, the price was set at $50,000 (out of which, $40,000 is just the price of the eight cards).

Best regards,
Vlado

[AlexP]

I'll start saving

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Isnt it the same as buying 8 gpus chucking up to 2x motherboard and dr ing it? Does their boxes have any advantages over what we can build?

[samuel_bubat]

Hmmm that´s exact 40,7 times faster. Now it´s a bit less information in this news about what the initial system was that rendered 9 hours.
For 50k you could also get roughly 50 renderslaves. Also will I need high voltage at my office to run this thing ?

[vlado]

Isnt it the same as buying 8 gpus chucking up to 2x motherboard and dr ing it? Does their boxes have any advantages over what we can build?

Well, the GPU cost is still there; from then on, if you can get this to run in a stable way, then yes, you can do it like this. However, we have always had lots of issues getting multi-GPU machines to run well, usually there are all sorts of stability issues with Windows (like cards not recognized, random blue screens/reboots etc). In contrast, the VCA has been very stable so far. Finally, because the VCA runs on Linux, it is actually faster than 8 GPUs on Windows - Windows drivers must support some UI-related stuff which apparently slows them down by 10-15%.

Best regards,
Vlado

[^Lele^]

When they were announced in the spring, the price was set at $50,000 (out of which, $40,000 is just the price of the eight cards).

Damn.
If i didn't have to add 190$ a month for VRay (or a grand for a full lifetime license), i'd have bought it right away!

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Damn.
If i didn't have to add 190$ a month for VRay (or a grand for a full lifetime license), i'd have bought it right away!

Is it me or many people dont like the 190$ for license? o.O

In any case I vote for photoshop pricing. 7.49£ a month if vray can go for 10£ I'd go with subscription as well =D

[^Lele^]

lol, nono!
in MY case, it was loaded with stashes and stashes of sarcasm. XD

[re:FORM]

You almost lost your invite to the next Chaos party there lele!

[^Lele^]

Ah!
I'm quite sure it didn't do me any favour regardless.
It's that sometimes i really can't hold it bottled. (Cfr. the other thread precisely on the lease OPTION, which is new to v3 and most definitely not forced on anybody.)
To set the record straight with casual readers, I OWE Chaos and V-Ray the last ten years of my career, and have the utmost respect for the intelligence, openness, and fairness the company showed time and again.
I was seriously just pulling legs, there. ^^

[Morne]

I was seriously just pulling legs, there. ^^

Jip, I think we all feel like that on a friday afternoon after a loooong weeks work