sure I meant ART.co.uk. The argument is the same again. Lock yourself into hardware and 2 seconds later you need to write your own shader and.... then what? And like ART these cards are not cheap.
I feel sorry for the ART guys though as they have been up this street for ever and just because nvidia have got marketing clout every college kid with a gforce thinks they have a death star in their laptop.
Get real. It takes time and memory to render quality and it has to be totally flexible as techniques change by the minute.
ART, OGL assisted, now gelato. Sure there is a place but how do I stick a FX card into my several hundred 1U racks either physically or financially. Have you seen the size of these cards anyway ? Sure some vendors (mental images) are leveraging GPU power and have done the same with OGL for some time but unless the GPU calls are handled by calls to the renderer so you hide behind a consistent API it's a waste of your hard earned time getting your pipeline into shape in the first place. Long live GPU but I don't want to be aware of it's presence.
PS. I think ATI are actually the smart kids on the block but chose the wrong colours for their marketing hype.Maybe they can get their chips straight onto the motherboard (much smarter).
We manage several hundred cpus on RH8 in a CGI render farm and desktop apps thru nvidia graphics. This choice is made for us by expensive graphics packages and rendering apps. For us it has been a trip from SGI to NT and I just got us back to unix again over a 10 year ride. The price was the issue and now that's gone. We have no security issues but the applications will be forced down the redhat route by manufacturers. So as OSX is becoming the flavour again in the film and TV world if I have the choice of lashing up my own fedora or buying into mr jobs' new world then it will probably be OSX which is supported by most of our desktop and batch apps. Sick as a parrot as macs drive me insane.
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sure I meant ART.co.uk. The argument is the same again. Lock yourself into hardware and 2 seconds later you need to write your own shader and .... then what? And like ART these cards are not cheap.
I feel sorry for the ART guys though as they have been up this street for ever and just because nvidia have got marketing clout every college kid with a gforce thinks they have a death star in their laptop.
Get real. It takes time and memory to render quality and it has to be totally flexible as techniques change by the minute.
ART, OGL assisted, now gelato. Sure there is a place but how do I stick a FX card into my several hundred 1U racks either physically or financially. Have you seen the size of these cards anyway ? Sure some vendors (mental images) are leveraging GPU power and have done the same with OGL for some time but unless the GPU calls are handled by calls to the renderer so you hide behind a consistent API it's a waste of your hard earned time getting your pipeline into shape in the first place. Long live GPU but I don't want to be aware of it's presence. PS. I think ATI are actually the smart kids on the block but chose the wrong colours for their marketing hype.Maybe they can get their chips straight onto the motherboard (much smarter).
We manage several hundred cpus on RH8 in a CGI render farm and desktop apps thru nvidia graphics. This choice is made for us by expensive graphics packages and rendering apps. For us it has been a trip from SGI to NT and I just got us back to unix again over a 10 year ride. The price was the issue and now that's gone. We have no security issues but the applications will be forced down the redhat route by manufacturers. So as OSX is becoming the flavour again in the film and TV world if I have the choice of lashing up my own fedora or buying into mr jobs' new world then it will probably be OSX which is supported by most of our desktop and batch apps. Sick as a parrot as macs drive me insane.