ones aimed at regular users rather than the Geek Elite...
"Oh Mandrake"
if it's available on a Wal-Mart pc, do you think they are going for "Geek Elite"????
If they (AutoDesk) were smart, they would get out of bed with Microsoft, and roll back out their AutoCAD for Unix (stopped around release 10 if I recall) That is the only thing holding the majority of my entire company back.
I think AutoCAD up to 12 is abandonware, so If you have a copy for Unix, hook me up please!!
If you do not have a back end render farm to support you, you just might want to go with the SGI. As it was already mentioned the bus bandwidth is a huge factor as well as the 64bit.. think painting with 55gallon drums vs quarts. If your friend will be working with global illumination, volume lighting and on a hdtv or higher resolution, 1 frame may take you 20 minutes+, at 30 frames per second the render time adds up fast. I'm running a Dell PowerEdge 2500 with dual PIII Xeons and a Dell Precision 530 Dual Xeon with a WildcatII video card at my desk. The Precision is my modeling box and the Poweredge is my local renderer. I can get all four processors running at 100% for 20hrs just to get 2 minutes final rendered architectural walkthough. With the cost of my desktop set-up the SGI's are not unreasonable, and more will be more stable. On a pc always render to individual images and compile them later because if you render to.mov and it crashes 18hrs into it.. it's all gone.
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ones aimed at regular users rather than the Geek Elite... "Oh Mandrake" if it's available on a Wal-Mart pc, do you think they are going for "Geek Elite"????
If they (AutoDesk) were smart, they would get out of bed with Microsoft, and roll back out their AutoCAD for Unix (stopped around release 10 if I recall) That is the only thing holding the majority of my entire company back.
I think AutoCAD up to 12 is abandonware, so If you have a copy for Unix, hook me up please!!
If you do not have a back end render farm to support you, you just might want to go with the SGI. As it was already mentioned the bus bandwidth is a huge factor as well as the 64bit.. think painting with 55gallon drums vs quarts. If your friend will be working with global illumination, volume lighting and on a hdtv or higher resolution, 1 frame may take you 20 minutes+, at 30 frames per second the render time adds up fast. I'm running a Dell PowerEdge 2500 with dual PIII Xeons and a Dell Precision 530 Dual Xeon with a WildcatII video card at my desk. The Precision is my modeling box and the Poweredge is my local renderer. I can get all four processors running at 100% for 20hrs just to get 2 minutes final rendered architectural walkthough. With the cost of my desktop set-up the SGI's are not unreasonable, and more will be more stable. On a pc always render to individual images and compile them later because if you render to .mov and it crashes 18hrs into it.. it's all gone.
So, the govt and nai will then be opening the worlds largest pr()n sites from the stored cache?
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