[geeks] FreeBSD install problem on ALR server

[Shawn Wallbridge]

We have had great success using Athlon's for rendering. The floating point
is amazing.

Right now we only have 30 render slaves, so they are not too hard to manage,
but I am dreading looking after too many more. Right now they are running
Win2K, but we are slowly moving over to Linux which should make my life
easier.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of joshua d boyd
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:09 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] FreeBSD install problem on ALR server


On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:36:52PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> Although I did just go out & buy a god-in-the-box 1.4Ghz Athlon based
> machine I'm using for non-linear video editing and 3d rendering.  Good
> lord, but this thing is fast...as long as I don't try to make it do lots
> of things at once.

For 3D rendering (I hate to say this), nothing seems to beat a stack on
lintel machines on the low and mid end.  At the high end, well that many
intel machines are unmanageable, so you spend more on machines to cut
staff costs (why Pixar uses Suns rather than Lintel boxes).

For video editing, I think that given the right software, an O2 should be
just as fast, if not faster than the fastest athlon.  I think the same
might hold true for HPs FX lintel boxes.

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Joshua D. Boyd
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