- Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:12 pm
#255961
so i'd be the license, the OS per slave... certainly only if there's noone working on that box... else there'd be more licenses to pay... MUCH more...
but how about future investment. such a box (10000$+) also has an economical lifetime of max. 3 years until newer computers are out for everyone that are faster.
i am a little bit critical concerning monsterbeast computers because they do not have a linear price/performance ratio but exponential. (20% more power costs twice as much with the newest cpus!)
this may be suitable for single users, sure, but even including the 1000$ license per slave with 8 gigs of ram You're just get much more bang per buck... of course with the ass-itch of networking and setup.
how far do Your calculations go ? with power consumption for example... ?
I haven't gone so far as yet to determine a KW/h price of a single (8, 16 core machine) costs , ..but it wouldn't take too much, ..just a spare moment. I'll try and get to that and maybe make a chart with KW/h variable that other users could figure just how much it costs to run their machine.
or is it also a personal flavour competing with the economics ? Yes, .. think about it, ... how comfortable would you be going to bed with ten 100 watt light bulbs burning in the house ? lol ... is it not the same to have a 1000w ps churning on a render ? Understandably the render is for a purpose, .. but it still bothers me.
in which direction would You invest for a multiple artists that even would want to render animations ? would You also recommend «the bigger the better» boxes ? With the way Intel is moving, I think that single boxes will probably replace the 30-100 node networks in the next few years(new ones, ..that is). The next generation chip from Intel is called Nehalem,....it's a scalable processor that'll internally have 16 to 32 cores per processor, supposedly. Back to scalable, ... ie,... the ability to realtime configure how many processors and which ones that should be doing what, where and when -- ultra flexibility for a server platform. Plus the cache is said to be scalable. Now,.. of course we always want all of them running at full tilt, ... but when your talking about wider server related duties, ...... that's excellent.
Just a note,... this whole Intel series from the 5000's to 7000's have been compatible, but these Nehalem's will need a competely new platform, ie., FSB, chipset, socket style etc...
It''ll be a totally new regime of ass kicking.
Due out in '08
but how about future investment. such a box (10000$+) also has an economical lifetime of max. 3 years until newer computers are out for everyone that are faster.
i am a little bit critical concerning monsterbeast computers because they do not have a linear price/performance ratio but exponential. (20% more power costs twice as much with the newest cpus!)
this may be suitable for single users, sure, but even including the 1000$ license per slave with 8 gigs of ram You're just get much more bang per buck... of course with the ass-itch of networking and setup.
how far do Your calculations go ? with power consumption for example... ?
I haven't gone so far as yet to determine a KW/h price of a single (8, 16 core machine) costs , ..but it wouldn't take too much, ..just a spare moment. I'll try and get to that and maybe make a chart with KW/h variable that other users could figure just how much it costs to run their machine.
or is it also a personal flavour competing with the economics ? Yes, .. think about it, ... how comfortable would you be going to bed with ten 100 watt light bulbs burning in the house ? lol ... is it not the same to have a 1000w ps churning on a render ? Understandably the render is for a purpose, .. but it still bothers me.
in which direction would You invest for a multiple artists that even would want to render animations ? would You also recommend «the bigger the better» boxes ? With the way Intel is moving, I think that single boxes will probably replace the 30-100 node networks in the next few years(new ones, ..that is). The next generation chip from Intel is called Nehalem,....it's a scalable processor that'll internally have 16 to 32 cores per processor, supposedly. Back to scalable, ... ie,... the ability to realtime configure how many processors and which ones that should be doing what, where and when -- ultra flexibility for a server platform. Plus the cache is said to be scalable. Now,.. of course we always want all of them running at full tilt, ... but when your talking about wider server related duties, ...... that's excellent.
Just a note,... this whole Intel series from the 5000's to 7000's have been compatible, but these Nehalem's will need a competely new platform, ie., FSB, chipset, socket style etc...
It''ll be a totally new regime of ass kicking.
Due out in '08
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