cheap renderslaves?

seismograph · January 20th, 2003

I found out that you can buy an Athlon XP1800 machine for less than 350€ with an allinclusive MoBo from Elitegroup.

What do you think about such machines as renderslaves, will they be stable and does it make sense to build a renderfarm with such machines?

bigcahunak · January 20th, 2003

Dont know about rendering with it, but if it helps, I do have this ECS motherboard on our internet gateway machine. Its on 24/7, and performs flawlessly.

Christopher Nichols · January 21st, 2003

Not sure... this may be completely out of your league, but since this is a public forum others may be interested...

Have you seen these blade servers?

http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/produc...dge_1655mc.htm

Check out the Shockwave 3D of the ervser... pretty cool. Click on View in 3D.

They are amazing. In a 3U high, you can get 12 procs on 6 computers with 2 gigs per proc. The backplane is super fast so it could be even more benficial for you if you are doing distributed rendering on through Vray or the yet to be finalRender stage 1. Imagine have 12 processors working on a single image.

Anyway... I think the whole thing cost around $10k to $12k... but that info is second hand and old.

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seismograph Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: vienna Posts: 188 Name: Christian Bauer	I found out that you can buy an Athlon XP1800 machine for less than 350€ with an allinclusive MoBo from Elitegroup. What do you think about such machines as renderslaves, will they be stable and does it make sense to build a renderfarm with such machines? __________________ [see.]

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Christopher Nichols Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Lalaland Posts: 1,166 Name: Christopher Nichols	Not sure... this may be completely out of your league, but since this is a public forum others may be interested... Have you seen these blade servers? http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/produc...dge_1655mc.htm Check out the Shockwave 3D of the ervser... pretty cool. Click on View in 3D. They are amazing. In a 3U high, you can get 12 procs on 6 computers with 2 gigs per proc. The backplane is super fast so it could be even more benficial for you if you are doing distributed rendering on through Vray or the yet to be finalRender stage 1. Imagine have 12 processors working on a single image. Anyway... I think the whole thing cost around $10k to $12k... but that info is second hand and old. __________________ Christopher P Nichols

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January 20th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
bigcahunak Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Israel Age: 37 Posts: 820 Name: Itzik Kelner	Dont know about rendering with it, but if it helps, I do have this ECS motherboard on our internet gateway machine. Its on 24/7, and performs flawlessly.

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