[Illya Laney]

Or….

https://www.magma.com/pciexpress.asp

Audio guys have been doing this for years. It’s not like it’s voodoo to have external PCI-E slots.

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[Illya Laney]

Resolve for OSX is designed to utilize 2 GPU’s.

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[Illya Laney]

You have any problems with the RAID-0? What drives do you use? I’ve been using Hitachi lately.

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[Illya Laney]

“I’m not sure you you can possible get real-time performance from color grading with a remote renderer unless you have a high-bandwidth connection like infiniband though.”

Just finished my first Resolve class. Previous versions of Resolve run multiple nodes of 2k in real time using 1 NVidia Quadro Plex connected via PCI. They use infiniband when stringing together multiple Quadro Plex’s for extra power.

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[Illya Laney]

You can run Kit 1 on a 2008 Mac Pro as long as it’s the 800 Mhz version, but I don’t think anyone knows for sure if the 2008 will work with Resolve yet.

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[Illya Laney]

1. It works similar to the NVidia Quadro Plex’s used on the previous Resolves.

2. It already works for Mac.

3. It would just be mean(haha) if BMD went out of their way to prevent Macs from using it with Resolve.

Just updated their website.

https://www.cubixgpu.com/Solutions/Laptop

They’re going to post a demo

https://www.cubixgpu.com/News

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[Illya Laney]

FCP isn’t the only reason to buy a Mac Pro, there’s plenty of other incentives.

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[Illya Laney]

[Ola Haldor Voll]“Sounds too good to be true”

Are you looking on this site?

https://www.cubixgpu.com/

Audio guys have been doing this for years with HD/Accel cards so this isn’t anything new. The concept is new to video post because our applications haven’t been designed to take advantage of multiple GPU processing.

Besides installing the NVIDIA drivers, there’s no other software/installations involved. The Mac see’s it as it’s own PCI Express slots and there’s no way for Resolve to even know the Mac is connected to an expansion chassis.

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[Illya Laney]

[Todd Jaspers] “I just don’t want Blackmagic to do an Apple to everyone. Where everyone gets APPLE SHAKE or APPLE COLOR and FCP studio and thinks there is a future there just to realize it was a ploy to buy hardware.”

What hardware are you talking about? Besides the actual computer, there’s no hardware requirements for FCP and Shake.

Here’s an interview with Grant Petty if you want to read more about Blackmagic and DaVinci.

https://magazine.creativecow.net/article/davinci-rebuilding-the-brand-for-the-21st-century

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[Illya Laney]

You can get the Cubix Xpander for Octane Render with a couple GTX 285’s pre-installed. The Xpander alone is only $870!!! The only other thing I’ve found in this price range is the Magma ExpressBox1, but it only supports cards using 55 watts or less. Cubix also has an ExpressCard 34 option in case you want to turn your Macbook Pro into Godzilla.

The best thing about this? The option to run external card combinations will allow Resolve/CS5 and Color to run on the same system so Color users won’t need to blow thousands on redundant gear.

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