On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Mladdy <agentm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sintel was rendered on 16 intel > i7-930 nodes with 6 GB each (and more in the end) while Elephants > dream was rendered on nearly 600 servers. I had tried to render one of > my Blender animations on my system (4gb RAM, Phenom x2 at 3.1ghz on > 64bit Linux Mint) and it took around ~43 minutes per frame (a total of > 424 frames). It was with Ambient occlusion at Additive phase, 2x > Motion Blur, a handful of composite nodes, Ray traced shadows and 4x > subdivision at a mere 960x480 to MOV (meaning, its pretty much low > quality, at maximum optimization). I never completed rendering it. Its > no joke, believe me. Forget about the final rendering, even test > renders will be a time consuming and tedious job if not given the > proper resources. Just imagine rendering at 4k. >
Thanks for the detailed info, Milad. May be NIT Calicut can be of some help with huge number of resources available in the campus. Of particular interest can be PURNA, a supercomputing facility installed last December, specifications and some details here: www.nitc.ac.in/nitc/Super_Computing.pdf If something concrete is decided regarding the movie, we can talk to the authorities, I am sure they will agree to support the move as our resources are usually underutilized at present. Though I am not sure PURNA will be of direct help with its current configuration as given in the pdf. -- Kartik Singhal BTech CSE Student, NIT Calicut http://www.techglider.com -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
