A Maxwell render farm?

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#28947

By daros - Mon May 30, 2005 10:29 am

- Mon May 30, 2005 10:29 am #28947

Matador Remote is ready to render with Maxwell.
It's a 3D software that allows you to have direct acces to a render farm.
At moment Matador has a 70 x 3Ghz renderfarm.
Other 80x2.6 ghz CPU's are ready to be added to the Matador Remote system.
for more information go at:
http://www.arkadin.biz

#28949

By pluMmet - Mon May 30, 2005 10:51 am

- Mon May 30, 2005 10:51 am #28949

What I don't understand is they have 70 processors and are getting another 80 = 150/4 = 37.5 (38 ) Maxwell licenses...They have spent $15,000 on Maxwell?

#28951

By pluMmet - Mon May 30, 2005 10:56 am

- Mon May 30, 2005 10:56 am #28951

and it costs 64 points- about 800 euros to render out a 3752x5568 frame? that seems excessive!

#28953

By DELETED - Mon May 30, 2005 10:59 am

- Mon May 30, 2005 10:59 am #28953

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#28970

By bakbek - Mon May 30, 2005 11:52 am

- Mon May 30, 2005 11:52 am #28970

WOW... are u sure about that 800 ?!?!?

seems to me it is cheaper to buy some boxes few more maxwell's and do it at home... 10 renders could cost you like a very good setup.

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#29035

By pluMmet - Mon May 30, 2005 2:45 pm

- Mon May 30, 2005 2:45 pm #29035

the $800 is straight off their site: http://www.arkadin.biz : 75 credits is 975 euro and the render I mentioned is a 64 credit render...

#29077

By Maxer - Mon May 30, 2005 4:40 pm

- Mon May 30, 2005 4:40 pm #29077

Wow

that is extremely expensive! It looks like this guy has spent a lot of capitol setting up his system and now he's trying to recoup on his investment. I'm still working on the numbers but I believe that in the limited capacity that I will have to do renderings my cost will be much much less.

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#29091

By pluMmet - Mon May 30, 2005 5:23 pm

- Mon May 30, 2005 5:23 pm #29091

I might be up for letting people buy a few cpu hours as well.... I just got my farm running Maxwell

7CPUs @ 8 threads.

#29108

By daros - Mon May 30, 2005 6:18 pm

- Mon May 30, 2005 6:18 pm #29108

hi guys and thanks for your comments. Yes we already have the licenses for the first 70 cpu's.
Remote Matador is many new different things. All things together creates the product.

David Rossmann

#29115

By pluMmet - Mon May 30, 2005 7:05 pm

- Mon May 30, 2005 7:05 pm #29115

Sorry for sounding down daros. I'm sure that there are alot of people without the hardware they need and have important deadlines

#29414

By Kabe - Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:32 am

- Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:32 am #29414

Regarding the "first come, first served concept"...

This might be a way to differentiate between fast service and cheap price:

Make two price categories:

A. The job is rendered on a first come, first served basis.

B. The job is rendered as soon as the Pipeline of A Jobs is empty. In between B-Jobs there is a first come, first served policy is in place as well.

However, if somebody needs a job urgently, she or he can decide to pay the premium for an A-Job to get it done first.

Kabe