i think youve missed his/her ever so slight dig at XP..
ie. it would take a dual Xeon 2.2GHz w/ 4Gb RAM to run winXP as good as a P90 running linux..
sheesh. twit indeed.
er.. not entirely true if you read the article and the one in cinescape you will see that all the crowd rendering is done by an in house renderer called Grunt
yeh.. i love getting to work reading the email notifying everyone that overnight 400 processors and 4Tb of space has been added to the network... and if that will cause anyone any problems to contact support immediately...
LMAO
but youre right.. sure it might be great to get 200 CPUs working on your job, but thats 200 seperate machines trying to read/write from the same disk, to/from the same files, at the same time as fast as possible.. network performance anyone?
ok well.. no..
but renderman used to be on mac about 8 years ago i think. then it shifted to intel and mips only.
However, now that Maya is on osX and Apple has aquired Nothing Real (they create Shake, compositing package) and steve jobs' associations with Pixar, i wouldnt be surprised if we see a re-introduction of prman on the macintosh.
Alfred, while made by pixar comes seperate to Renderman (along with another hefty price tag) and basically tries to manage the queue of tasks hitting the renderwall.
So while cpus on the wall do parts of an image, Alfred waits until these are done then tells another application that it can begin to assemble it all together.
With Alfred you can theoretically use it to manage any programm and look after the interactions between any applications as well.. as long as its command line BTW
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i think youve missed his/her ever so slight dig at XP.. ie. it would take a dual Xeon 2.2GHz w/ 4Gb RAM to run winXP as good as a P90 running linux.. sheesh. twit indeed.
er.. not entirely true if you read the article and the one in cinescape you will see that all the crowd rendering is done by an in house renderer called Grunt
LMAO
but youre right.. sure it might be great to get 200 CPUs working on your job, but thats 200 seperate machines trying to read/write from the same disk, to/from the same files, at the same time as fast as possible.. network performance anyone?
ok well.. no.. but renderman used to be on mac about 8 years ago i think. then it shifted to intel and mips only. However, now that Maya is on osX and Apple has aquired Nothing Real (they create Shake, compositing package) and steve jobs' associations with Pixar, i wouldnt be surprised if we see a re-introduction of prman on the macintosh.
Alfred, while made by pixar comes seperate to Renderman (along with another hefty price tag) and basically tries to manage the queue of tasks hitting the renderwall. So while cpus on the wall do parts of an image, Alfred waits until these are done then tells another application that it can begin to assemble it all together. With Alfred you can theoretically use it to manage any programm and look after the interactions between any applications as well.. as long as its command line BTW