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Hi all...
The company where I am working now wanted to buy a workstation to be exclusively dedicated to render... A Dell dual Xeon 2Mb @3.2 Ghz, with 4Gb RAM, a Quadro FX1000, serial ATA 120, costing here in Spain about 10.000 Euros (that's right
).
Then I suggested a lower configuration, like two dual Xeon @3.06Ghz, with 2Gb each, costing 5.000 each. Now I am thinking about two Blade servers Dell Power Vault at more or less the same configuration of these dual 3.06, to work as a small renderfarm (total $: 7.000)
So, the questions are:
1. Have you ever had some experience using those rack mounted blade servers as a render farm?
2. Is there know problems about using this or something that could justify the worsktation choice?
3. Could you please recommend me a configuration for this small renderfarm (2 computers, 2 proc. each), and
4. There is something that I don't know and would like to test:
Is the amount of cache memory important to render using VRAY? I am asking it because I know that it has a minnimum influence over scanline render. If nobody knows it we can do some tests, as I have a P4EE 3.2Ghz at the office that I can use to render.
Thanks all!
Joao.
The company where I am working now wanted to buy a workstation to be exclusively dedicated to render... A Dell dual Xeon 2Mb @3.2 Ghz, with 4Gb RAM, a Quadro FX1000, serial ATA 120, costing here in Spain about 10.000 Euros (that's right
).Then I suggested a lower configuration, like two dual Xeon @3.06Ghz, with 2Gb each, costing 5.000 each. Now I am thinking about two Blade servers Dell Power Vault at more or less the same configuration of these dual 3.06, to work as a small renderfarm (total $: 7.000)
So, the questions are:
1. Have you ever had some experience using those rack mounted blade servers as a render farm?
2. Is there know problems about using this or something that could justify the worsktation choice?
3. Could you please recommend me a configuration for this small renderfarm (2 computers, 2 proc. each), and
4. There is something that I don't know and would like to test:
Is the amount of cache memory important to render using VRAY? I am asking it because I know that it has a minnimum influence over scanline render. If nobody knows it we can do some tests, as I have a P4EE 3.2Ghz at the office that I can use to render.
Thanks all!
Joao.
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