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A question about building a render farm
Hi there:
Last year I purchased a Dell Precision 650 with dual 3.2 Xeons, 4 Gigs of RAM and an Nvidia QUadroFX 3000 video card. Everything is SCSI in my system and I’ve got a Medea Video RAID and G-tech Firewire drive… and an assortment of lesser firewire drives I keep my sound effects and stuff on.
This year I want to get into hi def or just HDV and I’m learning that for my needs I may need to purchase a turnkey system with something like the Matrox Axio or a Kona card.
The system I’m looking at uses SATA drives and AMD 64 bit processors. I have two questions:
1: Can I create a render farm using this new 64 bit workstation and my current 32 bit workstation?
2: Will it work if the new computer is SATA and my current computer is SCSI?
Thanks for any suggestions!
MIKE
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3 Replies
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Although AE isn’t 64-bit yet it will run fine on a 64-bit CPU and even on 64-bit Windows.
If you want to do network rendering you can mix and match different CPU’s without a problem, although it’s better to stick to one OS.
There’s also no problem if one system uses SCSI and the other uses SATA.
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When you say the sam OS, you you mean using Windows 64 on one and XP Pro on the other won’t work?
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Well, I haven’t tried networking XP64 and XP Pro yet, but I think that should work well. It’s the networking Macs and PC’s that can be a bit more complicated for network rendering.
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