• Adobe After Effects

  AE Render Farm/Network Speed

  Posted by Tony Silva on September 10, 2008 at 3:38 am

  We’re putting together a render farm to run AE and XSI using 6 Dell 1750 servers(dual 3Ghz xeon, 2gb ram, running XP). My question is about the speed of the network with large video files at render time.

  I’m conviced that a gigafast(t100) network will work, and believe that AE doesn’t need to constantly “stream” large video files at full speed over the network, just a frame here and there.

  My boss seems to think we need a gigabit(t1000) network to keep up with all the data.

  The 4 other workstations are already on a gigabit network, one of which is mostly used as a server for shared data.

  So will a gigafast switch support the data? The majority of our work is :30 commercials, with some hdv and dvcproHD footage.

  Tony Silva replied 17 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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