RenderDrive RD5000 & PURE

Steve Jepson — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:47:13 GMT

...for those of us who dare to fantasize about a $30,000+ Highres Workstation.

http://www.art.co.uk/index.ihtml

Could this be what IvanG is not telling us about how he makes those fantastic renderings? ...just kidding.

Has anyone ever seen a rendering made with RenderDrive and Pure from a ArchiCAD Model?

Re: RenderDrive RD5000 & PURE

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:22:30 GMT

RenderDrive is slick, but very expensive.

Now that the ArchiCAD 8 eXchange for Cinema 4D is available, this web site gains a new importance. Dwight told me about this place over a year ago and it keeps improving every month. Thanks to Dwight.

Render King : http://www.renderking.com/

After you have set-up the lighting,textures and cameras, you can produce many high-res stills or a feature length animation at a cost point that will make you very popular with the firms principal. After you finish it would be a good time to ask for that raise.

Here is some of the math for cost analysis:

This render farm offers 4657+ Cinebench (Cinebench 2003) 38+ ghz of render power supporting Alias Maya Complete 4.5 and Maxon Cinema 4D v8.503. It consists of 21 dedicated Render Stations - with Athlon 2400+ (currently 13 cpu's) and AMD Athlon 1800+ (currently 8 cpu's) processors, each with 512 mb of DDR ram and 40 GB hard drives, all run Windows XP Pro. Plus dedicated FTP, NET Render and File Server that runs OSX, 1.5 gb of ram and a 80 GB hard drive. Another OSX Server acts as the "controller" system and is continuously monitoring the farm for proper running programs and processes - reporting detailed process and cpu feedback to me via multiple email accounts and cell phone text messaging 24 hours a day. All systems are running on a segmented 100baseT switched network and large UPS battery back up systems for optimum speed and stability.

There are up to 15,120 render hours available per 30 day period (21 dedicated render farm CPU's X 24 hours in a day X 30 day usage period).

For Cinema users this equals 48.47 cents per hour for the whole farm; 2.30 cents per CPU per hour; or 1.2 cents per gigahertz hour.
math check 349 / 15,120 * 21 cpu = .4847 cents per hour for all farm | 349 / 15,120 hours = .02308 per cpu hour | 38.24 ghz * 24 hours * 30 days = 27,532.8 (349 / 27,532. = .0126 cents per ghz hour

For Maya users this equals $9.56 per hour for the whole farm. Currently, Maya 4.5 projects are unable to be user controlled and will be added to the render queue manually - but finished rendered frames are available immediately for FTP download.

(latest update)
June 6th adding client number 22 and upgrading the rest of the farm to all 2400XP processors. the ghz total will be 44ghz and the render cinebench will be 5214. this will be a total of 15,840 render hours available each month - no change in the cost.

Re: RenderDrive RD5000 & PURE

Steve Jepson — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:30:43 GMT

WOW!

This is an unbelievable opportunity for me to see my work at its very best.
Thank you for posting this information. This is a fantasy realized! Thank you!

Re: RenderDrive RD5000 & PURE

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:37:08 GMT

MUAXAXAXA

Money For Nothing .))))))))))))

4xXEON on 2.2GH is fastest on MAX+VRAY that PURE .)))))))

4xXEON Server is 7000$

Vray DISTRIBUTED RENDERING wit one license of Vray is UP to 10 Machines
(Distributed rendering CALCULATE ONE BIG IMAGE WIT ALL THE CPU POWER ON THE NETWORK FARM)

One Dual Xeon 2.8gh is down that 2000$

and to day you have that too

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040405044711.html

price is down that 6000$

Have Nice Render Day .)))))))))))

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