15 Oct
2002
15 Oct
'02
10:25 p.m.
Yep, its all being run on PC's and Mac's, the days of dedicated
multiprocessors for rendering
have passed.
Even my beloved ICE multiprocessor boards are slower than PC's running
Windows applications.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Ross Archer wrote:
I'm curious now. If they're dumping all
this SGI gear,
what on earth are they replacing it with?
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Maybe it's the little shops doing the dumping, which are
hurting for work enough that SGI is just too expensive, and
they make do with inferior tools (e.g. PCs and PC software)
to reduce expenses?
In case you haven't noticed, quite a few post-production studios have been
replacing expensive SGI gear with farms of PCs running linux and whatever
rendering software is available. It saves tons on cost, and can get the
same job done faster. PC's provide about the best price/performance
ratio of any available hardware...
One example is Dreamworks:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6103
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