CPU Limitations

[Tay othman]

Hi Guys

 

I'm Wondering what is the limitation of Mentalray in 3dsmax or Maya?

 

Is it CPUs? Cores? or Machines?

 

And Can I Purchase Additional CPU Licenses with out jumping to standalone?

 

Thanks

[monkhell]

As far as i know, the main limitation overall it's RAM. CPU it's more about speed and number of threads. Cheers.

[Tay othman]

I know but When starting mentalray in maya unlimited it says"mentalray have 8 satellitte CPUs"

[Justin Hunt]

Its cores, mainly for distributed bucket rendering, restricted to 8 cores.

 

Backburner isnt limited to number of machines

 

in Max2009 (out already) there is a 512 core limit.

 

jhv

[Tay othman]

Dear Justin

 

you mean 512 core limits for distributed buckets renderings or backburner?

 

Thanks For your post

[Tay othman]

by the way , I'm Not using Backburner

Coz my CG Software is Maya

[Justin Hunt]

DBR, cant say for Maya, I do know that it is different to Max, more restrictive

 

JHV

[Tay othman]

DBR in maya exactly the same in max.....via mentalray satelittes.....In maya unliited I have 8 Satellite CPUs and my renderfarm has 32 cores?

any suggesions?>

 

Thanks my dear friend Justin for your kind replies

[manta]

You're going to need some kind of network rendering software similar to backburner in Max...I think you have your work cut out for you, I remember trying to network render with maya....not fun

[Tay othman]

Yes Manata We've Purchased 8 BoXX Machnies and we need to utilise all of them in DBR. I dont want a managment softwares to render an animation but we need to go further that the limited 8 cpus with mentalray