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PS3 – Render Farm – Kramer’s new tutorial
In Andrew Kramer’s latest tutorial on frame rate conversion, he said real quick using a Playstation 3 as part of a render farm. Can you really do that? Is it possible to use a 360 as well? And how would you set that up? My heads been reeling after I heard him say that. Anybody have some info about that?
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If this works, it will be another reason for me to buy a PS3 😀
Andrew Kramer rules! -
especially considering it could be a tax write off for me as a video freelancer
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I’ll try to be more careful with my jokes…
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aww kramer, you’ve crushed my dreams 🙂
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In theory it can be done i think. You can run linux in your ps3. using Yellow Dog Linux V5.0. (https://akihabaranews.com/en/en/news-12637-Give+you+PS3+an+OS+with+Open+Office%2C+Firefox%E2%80%A6.html) I can imagio some kind of wizzkid can solve the problem of connecting a PS3 to a after effects renderFarm. How knows these wizzkids?!!?? I’m very interrested about this idea!
bye
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Yep, you can run Linux on a PS3. But you can’t run AE on Linux…
Bar3nd
Raamw3rk – digital storytelling and visual effects
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Since I had a thing for clusters some time ago – couldn’t resist….
PS 3 can run linux, yet as Barend pointed out – no AE on linux. I also wouldn’t count on that anytime soon. That said, you could run AE in Wine (Windows emulation on Linux), yet its emulation. In the case of the PS 3, it uses a cell chip (really a G5 with lots of little co-processors) which means its a RISC processor (Intel Chips are CISC). This means the windows emulation would really suck (as windows only likes CISC) = no performance / lots of crashes.
Therefore, your PS3 farm would only be good for…..gaming?
Although – anyone see a complete version of Aqua/Darwin/FBSD emulator for linux (also known as OS X)? I heard that OS X knew how to deal with RISC G5 once upon a time.
Steve
(A Guy who 4 years ago, seriously investigated putting together a farm of PS2’s and Xbox360 for real work but became content with just blowing things up) -
A network farm with 5 or 6 pentium2 200s worth $50 a piece would work better than emulation on 5 or 6 PS3s
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