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Subject: Re: [AE] Semi OT: Yet another mac mini render farm thread
From: Eric James Wood <list@helium14.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:14:16 +0100
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Hey guys, i was just visiting some friends in oslo, and they had 20 =
mini's running in a cabinet with deadline controlling it. They were =
buying 10 more new minis to add, i will ask what kinds of problems they =
had, etc.
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On 2012.Nov.12, at 21.05, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Shipley <nshipley@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> Hey Tony -=20
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> 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?
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> Thanks!
>  - Nathan
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> 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?)
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> Have been toying with building a mac mini render farm, mostly for =
cinema 4d.  With the just released i7 quad core mac minis=85 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.
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> Just not sure how stable they are for sustained multi hour usage on =
the processors=85.
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> Any thoughts?
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