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‘hardware renderer’
Hello,
There is this issue of rendering that bothers me and I have been wondering if we have hardware renderers…(I hope I’m correct) that can do the job much, much faster.
If this is possible, I am searching for a machine that is very efficient, powerful and fast.
Thank you very much guyz…
Regards,
‘kk’ -
4 Replies
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beefier graphics cards from ATI and nvidia, more RAM, more/faster processers, and render farms.
Alexander Gao
“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”
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…just curious but what is a render farm…
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A render farm is a network of computers that act collectively to render images. The master system “farms out” individual frames to rendered by machines on the network which return the rendered frames to a common folder where they can be imported and reassembled as a video clip.
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‘building a render farm’…
Thank you very much for the reply…I appreciate it. After reading your reply I wondered how I can build my own hardware renderer. Tho’ with a lil’ knowledge from networking, I guess I’ll be able to build mine.
1a. Can you please tell me what hardware I’ll need for both ‘server’ and ‘client(s)’.
1b. I want to beleive that in such a set-up, a server system constitutes monitor, system unit, keyboard and mouse. While client system is just system unit…please make me understand.
2. What OS am I to use…I guess this should be windows 2000, xp or linux
3. How many animation, composite and rendering programmes can I load into the server…what I mean is, does this set-up allow multi-tasking.
3. How many computers put together will make a render farm ‘superfast’…I guess there should be some kind of way to determine how many frames a render farm will render in say 30 minutes.
Will be glad to read from somebody soon…
Regards,
‘kk’
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