We settled on 2GPUs for most machines. A couple have 3. Workstations
have 1. Like Matt and Mirko said, because of non-linear performance,
you'll need to determine at what point you want to parallelize.
And yes, you can have a machine with 4 cards, and 4 instances of RS each
rendering on a separate card. However, be advised that all 4 instances
of RS/XSI will pull from shared resources like the CPU and system RAM.
If you can swing Titan Xs, their 12GB of vram make a huge difference in
performance, even if the specs of the card itself might not seem as
appealing as the 908Ti.
-Tim
On 1/19/2016 2:52 AM, Matt Morris wrote:
When I was at A Large Evil Corporation we replaced around 40 cpu nodes
with 8 dual gpu nodes. With 2 cards the scaling is pretty good (around
1.85x). With 3 or 4 cards it would definitely be worth doing one frame
per gpu.
On 19 January 2016 at 00:39, Artur Woźniak <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
SO the question.
How do you setup your farm. Which is better? Multiple cards per
frame or a card per frame?
Artur
2016-01-19 0:50 GMT+01:00 Tim Crowson
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
We're use a 'garden' really... about a dozen dedicated
machines, most with 2xTitanX cards, and we have some
workstations that can kick in if needed. You can get through a
lot with far less than before. And if you need to upgrade,
just pop in a different card. We went from dual 770s to dual
TitanXs with zero hassle and the performance improvement was
as expected: awesome.
-Tim
On 1/17/2016 11:38 AM, Graham Bell wrote:
I'd really like us to look at Redshift but too embedded with
Vray. Keeping an eye on the possible Max integration as that
could turn heads.
How big a farm are people using for Redshift, because we do a
lot of rendering.
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 at 16:57, balazs kiss <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Morten,
we're also on redshift here, and I've made another small
studio to switch too ( by showing a few frames and the
corresponding render times ).. great stuff :)
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Kris Rivel
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Loooooove RS! Switched over after briefly playing
with Vray and never looked back. It has been amazing
so far.
Kris
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Ognjen Vukovic
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I thought they mentioned having rendermaps in
soft actually working partially, they were just
looking for a method on how to implement it
across the board.
I could be completely wrong though. Either way i
would like the volumes more :), sorry baking guys.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Matt Morris
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'd say the timescale for
rendermapping/baking will be months rather
than weeks - seems like complex volume
rendering will come before baking.
On 8 January 2016 at 09:28, Ognjen Vukovic
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It wasn't supported up till now, I think
they will be introducing it in the coming
weeks.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, James De
Colling <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
sorry for the potentially silly
question, but how is redshift with
Rendermap? we use it extensively with
MR, and would need redshift to have
the same capability
James,
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:01 PM,
Morten Bartholdy <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Wow, it is quite impressive what
an impact Redshift has made already.
I have done a fair amount of
testing with Redshift too and
find on average scenes to be 5-10
times faster than Arnold with
comparable quality, plus a number
of things are simpler to set up
the way you want it, in part
because of the rapid feedback in
the renderregion. I have yet to
test it on really complex scenes,
so that will be the next thing to
check. I agree on a lack of
shader support in certain parts,
especially compared to
Arnold/Sitoa, so it is reassuring
that Burtnyk and Co are so
responsive :)
We will likely also incorporate
it to some extent when it
supports vdb and volumetric
rendering and see where it takes us.
Morten
Den 5. januar 2016 kl. 19:50
skrev "Emilio Hernández"
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Softimage and Redshift.
Best marriage ever!
I have 4 licenses.
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