It uses max. 4 GB of RAM. It runs 6 times in parallel on a six core machine. According to the gnome-system-monitor all 6 cores are at 100% nearly all the time.
Jan On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Chris Erskine <stupid.tour...@gmail.com>wrote: > how much ram is it using? > > and have you tried running muiltiple renders on your 6 core amd? > > my first thought is your transfer speed may become a bottleneck. > > my thought would be to get an intel 2600 enough ram to cover 8 jobs at > once and an ssd that good at multitreaded read. > > though it may run faster to disable hyperthreading and just run 4 jobs at > once. > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Tim Nugent <timnug...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Have a look at Xbox (and maybe PS3 - not sure if these still let you run >> Linux) clusters. Lots of people are going to be building clusters using >> Raspberry Pi's when they go on sale hopefully later this month (700Mhz >> ARM/Linux machines for ~$25). Whether or not you get the performance you're >> after, it'd be a fun project putting something like that together. I have >> quite a lot of experience with Sun Grid Engine on very large/expensive >> compute clusters and Hugin jobs run fine. >> >> Tim >> >> >> On 12 January 2012 14:49, Jan Martin <janmar...@diy-streetview.org>wrote: >> >>> It is time to reveal a few more facts to allow for better judgment. >>> >>> Each image set is 13.2 MB per panorama only. >>> Stitching, blending, cubing and tiling needs 8.5 seconds altogether on a >>> 6 core AMD PC for USD 750. >>> >>> What I am looking for is to build a cluster from many cheap boards and >>> CPUs, that provides a "better performance per Dollar". >>> Not a "fast PC on a budget". >>> >>> Something like "10 boards of 150 USD each" that provide 6 times the >>> performance, bust just cost twice. >>> >>> Is there really nobody whom runs a rendering farm? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. >>> A list of frequently asked questions is available at: >>> http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ >>> To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. >> A list of frequently asked questions is available at: >> http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ >> To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx > -- http://www.DIY-streetview.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
