Marque opened this issue on Sep 23, 2011 · 31 posts
FightingWolf posted Fri, 23 September 2011 at 3:23 PM
Quote - This is the 3rd iteration of the rendergarden. Except that the netgear 24 port 10/100 switch has been replaced by a green gigabit 16 port smart switch. The original boxes above ran an original Slot A Athlon, and the rest were Athlon IIs. The current boxes in the rack run Athlon 64-'X2s. All have 4 gigs ram. A couple of them also have a RAID 0 HDD array (experimenting. It does speed up the slowest part, namely hard drive access time, but you have =zero= error tolerance. Lose a drive, and you have to reinstall everything).
Plus is you get a slightly clued person asking, you get to watch their eyes bulge when you tell them its your renderfarm...... :P
And what exactly is it that you do? Are CG graphics a hobby or a career?