FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Apr 08, 2012 · 13 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Sun, 08 April 2012 at 5:03 PM
Has anybody used a Raspberry Pi with Bryce7Pro?
I wondered how it does with it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/05/raspberry-pi-demand
I'm thinking - Render Farm?
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AgentSmith posted Sun, 08 April 2012 at 7:55 PM
Probably won't happen right now with these version of Pi's.
Rasberry Pi's runs on a Fedora Linux OS and/but cannot run the "Wine" program, which would be required to run Bryce at all (I believe). :o(
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FranOnTheEdge posted Sun, 08 April 2012 at 9:48 PM
Oh... that's a shame. So you couldn't have Bryce on another PC and run that as a master with the Raspberry Pi as the slave doing the work, then?
Is that because you'd still need to put Bryce Lightning on the Rasp Pi?
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AgentSmith posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 1:00 AM
Yup, exactly. ;o(
But, given time, you will be able to do it. One thing I have always noticed...there is always SOMEBODY that wants to make Windows a OS boot up on EVERYTHING. Somebody will make it happen at some point, lol.
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FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 8:14 AM
I can't wait.
Could you still use it to render from C4D though?
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TheBryster posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 9:39 AM Forum Moderator
Rhubarb Pie does it for me.
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FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 10:40 AM
@ Bryster: Gooseberry's better!
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TheBryster posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 10:55 AM Forum Moderator
I haven't had goosegog crumble for years.
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Quest posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 11:07 AM
Hi Fran, from the reading and watching the video, it seems a little slow to be used as part of a render farm at least at this point in time. Unless you're thinking of daisey chaining a few of them together and then going off on holiday somewhere while the little raspberries churn out a render. I do remember programing with the Sinclair back in the day. Interesting possibilities.
FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 09 April 2012 at 2:25 PM
Ian made a ZX81 - he says nothing is as slow as that was. Even with his home made 16k ram pack.
But yes, we were thinking daisy chaining, not sure about the holiday though.
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MarkHirst posted Sun, 15 April 2012 at 5:04 PM
Another thing that might kill the idea is the Pi has an ARM processor, whereas most apps like Bryce are x86 executables.
UVDan posted Mon, 16 April 2012 at 1:55 AM Forum Moderator
Quote - Ian made a ZX81 - he says nothing is as slow as that was. Even with his home made 16k ram pack.
But yes, we were thinking daisy chaining, not sure about the holiday though.
I gave my ZX81 with all its associated kit to Goodwill ages ago. I should have kept it for Antiques Roadshow.
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Analog-X64 posted Tue, 17 April 2012 at 6:37 PM
Bit late to the thread, but yea Raspbery Pi will make for a good Media Center type of PC. Which is what I Plan to use it for.
I've been playing with Pentium 3 and Pentium 4's for render farms you can look up my posts here.
And 6 older computers couldnt keep up with a single Core i7 Processor... I dont know if that comes down to inefficient network rendering in Bryce or a Core i7 is that good.
My latest test will be using a AMD Quad Core Processor + 3 or 4 Core 2 Duo PC's as nodes and see how that renders.