Rendering Hradware Recommended !!

[mrdino]

Hi all ,,

 

I just want your consulting in this case :

I need a Rendering Hardware solution for Stills in Architectural Visualizations , not for Animation , but for stills , something to speed up the rendering and accepts third party renderers , like Mental Ray , VRAY , Brazil , FinalRender , etc.

 

I know ART VPS have PURE cards , but they need their own rendering software , i need to render with my own package i select , and i want it to render fast !! So , what do you recommend ? Graphics Cards , netwrok Rendering or special workstations ??

 

Thanks in advance !!

[manta]

Just build a couple X2 computers with minimum components i.e. intergrated graphics etc...Having 4 extra CPU's should cut your rendering times by 2/3's

at least...

[mrdino]

Hi manta ,,

 

thanks for your advice but what is X2 ? you mean Intel Xeon PCs (dual proccessors) ? Also do you mean by that is that i have to connect the new PC via network as a render piece ? or use it as a workstation ?

 

Anyhow , thanks for your reply !!

 

Ciao ,,

[DavidR]

'x2' is AMD's desktop chip, and, no, you can't put 2 x2 in one system, so get dual Opteron 265 to 290, whatever your budget will allow, and skip the graphics card -integrated is fine for a render server. We have HP blades with dual Opteron 275, and they are exactly 100% faster than our dual Xeon 2.8 systems with large (1.5-3million polys) rendered in Vray. We had 6 Renderdrives, and I'll never, ever advocate going with proprietary hardware/software -you're locked in to an expensive system that doesn't allow experimentation with other stuff, which is death in our industry. With a standard dual sytem, you can switch to Brazil for rendering your people because you like the skin shader, use Vray for your environment, and mental ray for motion-blurred cars and composite it all in whatever. That's the kind of flexibility that's needed. We use Vray for everything now (well, a bit of mr and Maxwell), but you get the idea. Renderdrives are popular with the car crowd because they're easy to use, and HDR (direct light only- no multi-bounce secondary illumination) is adequate for the simple scenes they show on their site. For most of us, it's clear that Vray is best adapted to interiors lit primarily with secondary illumination. Anyway, I'm drifting a bit here -until Intel's Woodcrest comes out, it's an AMD world for rendering.

[mrdino]

Hi David ,,

So you recommend RenderDrives for rendering ? Or is it just an AMD Opteron PC with minimal Graphics Card ? But RenderDrives are dedicated only for their own Rendering System (Renderpipe) !!

 

Anyway , Thanks for your advice !!

 

Ciao ,,

[AJLynn]

David is saying no on the Renderdrive.

 

Do what everybody else is doing - a dual-dual Opteron, and you can get more of these systems if you need them.

[DavidR]

yes, no Renderdrives. Dual Opteron gives you software freedom, speed, low cost, upgradeability, etc. Hollywood (and Bollywood, I guess) do this because it's the best bang for the buck -all the SGIs are in a landfill now.