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Thunderbolt everywhere
I just saw that CalDigit released a way to interface almost all their devices via Thunderbolt instead of PCIe (https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt/) and Cubix is announcing a two-slot Thunderbolt PCI expander (https://www.cubixgpu.com/Blog/1/42) and Magma has a three slot one…
Could lead to some interesting configurations, especially if the Thunderbolt ports on the likely new Mac Pro don’t come at the expense of PCI slots…
KC
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I thought thunderbolt was inherently equivalent to a 4x PCIe. Aside from storage, I’m not sure what thunderbolt can really do for us. Happy to see it expanding though.
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Doesn’t something like the Decklink only need 4x PCIe? As well as, arguably, your GUI GPU
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The DL3d is 4x, but its the only thing I have thats 4x.
RedRocket, ATTO, are 8.
Gfx cards are 16.I honestly don’t know if the gui card needs to be x16, x8 or even x4. I’m running a single 30″ from the gui. Assumed it needed the extra bandwidth, but could be wrong.
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Yeah, I think that’s math behind the ultrastudio…
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I think Thunderbolt looks like a great port and certainly a 17″ Macbook Pro with Thunderbolt peripherals would make a great “on set” DIT / Colorist machine and with the possibility of adding a “real” Gfx card and I/O etc to a portable machine is pretty nice.
However I don’t think a machine with multiple GPU cards based around Thunderbolt is so great as a serious dedicated Colorist setup. Consider 4 or more X16 GPU’s and a X8 Raid like the Atto R680 or similar the Thundebolt port starts looking like a pretty tiny straw to move all that data around with.
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Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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maybe some jobs could be done on imac now even if the bus size will limit.
Assistants etc can be connected to big arrays and they can have video io with computer costing 2000 usd.
So there is good point to have a lot of thunderbolt stuff coming out.
Editing can be done on imacs, grading and some other stuff on mac pro.
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Margus
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Hi Everyone,
The Cubix Xpander Mobile will feature 1x 16-channel (physical) slot + 1x 8-channel (physical) slot. Purpose of this is that we don’t want people trying to do multi-GPU configurations under T-Bolt v.1.0. The intent is to provide a slot for a Quadro 4000 + whatever else you want.
There are 3rd party applications other than Resolve out there that we believe this product will also benefit. Autodesk Maya 2012 and Adobe CS 5.5 are just a couple of them.
Once t-bolt is released on Windows hardware next year, the applications expand (no pun intended) to included Autodesk 3ds Max + GPU-based rendering with iray and derivatives of it. Plenty of others out there as well.
Eric
Eric Fiegehen
Director, Visualization & GPU Compute Solutions
Cubix Corporation
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Well, that sounds reasonable.
But please make it big enough to take a modded GTX 470 or better too.
The Q4000 is just not cutting it.
I much rather buy your extender and use a non certified but fast card then spending it on nVidias current offerings.A slice of color…
DaVinci 8.0.1 OSX 10.7
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
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🙂 just a matter of plugging in a big enough power supply & exhaust fan, but I’ll make sure Engineering hears your request Sascha.
Eric
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