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AJLynn · February 7th, 2006

They're working on it. But don't be mad at ArtVPS - they found a market niche and filled it, and have a lot of satisfied customers. A big part of the reason these things only run one program is that it's impractical to make them run more than one program. To get 8 or 16 cores on one PCI card without costing 5x more than it does and requiring its own 800W power supply and liquid cooling assembly, they use specialized chips that are designed (and probably hardwired) only to run their software. These can not be Intel x86 chips with anywhere near the efficiency they have now. It could be an open platform, but there would need to be a company that does that or some kind of open source hardware group which has been tried but never worked very well, and the more functions the platform has the less efficiently it will perform each one.

February 7th, 2006	#7 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,550 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: Recommended Rendering Hardware? They're working on it. But don't be mad at ArtVPS - they found a market niche and filled it, and have a lot of satisfied customers. A big part of the reason these things only run one program is that it's impractical to make them run more than one program. To get 8 or 16 cores on one PCI card without costing 5x more than it does and requiring its own 800W power supply and liquid cooling assembly, they use specialized chips that are designed (and probably hardwired) only to run their software. These can not be Intel x86 chips with anywhere near the efficiency they have now. It could be an open platform, but there would need to be a company that does that or some kind of open source hardware group which has been tried but never worked very well, and the more functions the platform has the less efficiently it will perform each one.