Hi everyone
Just a quick email for some figures. As some may remember I have a small farm rendering setup here (4 slaves)Of course when I needed it the most one of the power supply of a slave mobo gave up. Leading me to trick the system etc .... ending up buggering a complete 11.3 OS disk.
Being not too happy with suse 11.4 on 1 machine I decided to go ahead with 12.0.
Apart from a graphic interface that looks like "Noddy and his computer", everything went smoothly for the install (cifs mount, nfs disks, raid 0 XFS, cinelerra precompiled)
Ok time for gear description :
1. All slaves are creating equal (e.g. exactly the same hardware) but
one running 12.0, others 11.3 and master running 11.4
2. The master is an AMD 6400 + black edition (or something)
3. Slaves are Pentium 6500 @ 2.93 Khz running in init3
4. Important point the 12.0 slave is also running a 2.2 cinelerra
version (rpm)
Test has been done on 58 reels of super 8 of 50 ft (~3600 frames / roll).
So here we go, after few hours non stop of calculations on 5 machines :
Master + 4 slaves
I attached a frame, but jut in case it does not go through : * Master : 7.413 fps (11.4) * Slave 1 : 9.116 fps (11.3) * Slave 2 : 9.570 fps (11.3) * slave 3 : 12.203 fps (12.0) * Slave 4 : 9.486 fps (11.3)That does include histogram, scaling from 1600 x 1200 to 1440+1080+padding and motion on vertical axis only, export on the same target disk in uncompressed RGB
I have my own conclusion (there is a god for idiots) and leave it for people to comment
Cheers and happy new year Edouard
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