Joe

Quote - What kind of processors are you running in those?

  The blades are dual processor motherboards;  the processors are HyperThreaded hex-core Xeons (X5650).  The HP slave units have dual quad-core Xeon processors, but they're not HyperThreaded (but they were cheap!).  The core i# series cannot run in parallel;  if you want dual processors, it's going to be Xeons.  If you want to run Win7, then stay away from the four-CPU and eight-CPU servers;  desktop Windows OSes will only acknowledge two processors.

     This is cost effective if you buy used server blades;  I got these from DeepDiscountServers on ebay.  The surplus HPs were bought from Newegg in their "refurbished" listings.  Oh, and a Win7Pro 64bit OEM full new install license (has the holo-decal) is $60 US at SoftwarePlusTech.  Of course, if you PiXiE boot, that's not needed.

RorrKonn

Quote - seachnasaigh : I see all those work stations & think, Studio with a crew but there's not enough work space for a crew & only one chair .Your going to build a studio with a crew ?

Nope, just a lone mad scientist in his lair. :P     Oh, and maybe a pixie.  Pixies don't need much space, though.  ^^

RorrKonn

Quote - All that hardware is for what all softwares ?

Rendering in Poser Pro and Vue.  Modeling in Silo and modo.  Vue's licensing limits how many "rendercows" are engaged at any one time.  Galadriel's Vue 11.5 license allows five cows;  Cameron's Vue 2014 license allows ten cows.  But with Poser Pro, I can throw everything jacked into the router at the problem, over 200 cores.

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5