- Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:56 pm
#397823
Hey everyone,
i am thinking of building my own little render farm. I am an architect and together with my wife we have recently started our own firm. I have been doing Visualization on my free time for my old office and some minor clients. With the new firm we will make rendering a much bigger part of our hole workflow.
So this is what i am planning to do.
5 or 6 of the 2018 6-core i7 mac minis. One as my main "workstation" (+ eGPU?) the rest as pure render nodes as long as we don't have any other employees. I would prefer this over one beefier workstation because this way, if we decide to employ people and budget might be tight i could just take one of them instead of buying a new machine. Rendering will be pure CPU of course.
I have a few questions that i would love to get some help with.
What do you think in general about the plan?
What about ram? I will only do cooperative jobs, so the voxelisation is on one machine only right? Should 8gb for the rest be enough?
Is there any advantage considering faster network speed in regards to the rendering process? Should i go for 10 Gigabit network or would the regular make no difference?
Thanks. Kolja
i am thinking of building my own little render farm. I am an architect and together with my wife we have recently started our own firm. I have been doing Visualization on my free time for my old office and some minor clients. With the new firm we will make rendering a much bigger part of our hole workflow.
So this is what i am planning to do.
5 or 6 of the 2018 6-core i7 mac minis. One as my main "workstation" (+ eGPU?) the rest as pure render nodes as long as we don't have any other employees. I would prefer this over one beefier workstation because this way, if we decide to employ people and budget might be tight i could just take one of them instead of buying a new machine. Rendering will be pure CPU of course.
I have a few questions that i would love to get some help with.
What do you think in general about the plan?
What about ram? I will only do cooperative jobs, so the voxelisation is on one machine only right? Should 8gb for the rest be enough?
Is there any advantage considering faster network speed in regards to the rendering process? Should i go for 10 Gigabit network or would the regular make no difference?
Thanks. Kolja