Vray Render node on a dedicated linux web server

[dharmaone]

Is it possible to get a vray render node up and running on a linux server?

 

I'm thinking about renting one of these anyway for a web dev playground

 

http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/

 

Would like to use it occasionally to help with the speed of my vray renders.

 

The machines have really high specs (up to 8 cores, shitloads of RAM), decent prices (under £100 a month), and you pay monthly - so if you don't need it later you're not tied in to a contract

 

Any thoughts?

[dharmaone]

just noticed that you can install windows 2012 server on these for £17/month. Their cheapest i7 (2.66ghz bloomfield 24gb ram) is £30/month, so for £47/month I could have an i7 windows server. Would 3ds max Vray render nodes be possible to set up on this setup?

[Dimitris Tolios]

A "Bloomfield" i7-920 @ stock 2.66GHz speeds has a Cinebench 11.5 score of ~4.8pts under Win64, and it will cost you around £564 / year.

 

A FX-8350 rendering node with 16GB of Ram can be had for less than £350 before OS, and has a Cinebench 11.5 around ~6.9 pts. 32GBs.

A 3770K would do ~7.6

A 4470K would do ~8.1

 

Both Ivy Bridge and Haswell i7s can be had in 16GB configs for less than £450 before OS.

Ofc all the above can be upgraded to 32GBs if you wish so, and you would still be around the price you would pay for a server utilizing 2008 mainstream technology.

 

You could even overclock your own nodes mildly, and gain even more substantial gains over a 920...almost double the speed.

 

I would rather have my own little node, which I could upgrade at will, repurpose or sell if I don't use, even at a loss - all the money you will be spending on renting one cannot be recuperated at any %.

 

Even if you will end up getting the server for your side-web-dev thing, I don't know how viable it will be using it as a remote rendering node regardless. Uploading assets/models to the remote server might take ages depending on your connection to the webs, while a local machine, even over wifi would work and be managed much much faster.