Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #46576
From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Semi OT: Yet another mac mini render farm thread
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:05:02 -0500
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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My main concern would be the networking back end. Unless you have an applescript wizard on hand you may run into some problems, even with a networked rendering package like deadline. We tried to do something like this at a place I was working a few years ago and it was rage-inducing. The frustrating thing was "it should have worked" but it just didn't. There were always problems. maybe if you installed win 7 pro in bootcamp on all of them. but I guess that would defeat the purpose. Things have probably come along since then however

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Shipley <nshipley@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Tony - 

Pondering this myself.  Just curious if you ever collected any useful answers or found some relevant information about a render farm with the latest Minis.  Anything?

Thanks!
 - Nathan


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Tony Romain <tonyr-aelist@trancedesigns.com> wrote:
So this has come up in the past, wanted to get opinions from the technorati out there (I'm looking in your direction Tim Sassoon, I think you built one a few years back, yes?)

Have been toying with building a mac mini render farm, mostly for cinema 4d.  With the just released i7 quad core mac minis… thinking it could be a pretty great option.  I know you can probably get more bang for your buck building a PC based version from scratch.  But one of my concerns, being in a relatively small studio space is power consumption and heat, which I think makes a mac mini a good option.

Just not sure how stable they are for sustained multi hour usage on the processors….


Any thoughts?


 
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