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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. -- Eric James Wood Helium14 | www.helium14.com Design | Motion + Graphic www.helium14.com 'the next best thing to knowing something, is knowing where to find it' 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 > > 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? > > > > -- > tony romain | principal/creative director > > trance > motion graphic animation and design > 323 651 1114 > www.trancedesigns.com > > > > > -- > Animator & Editor > www.teddygage.com > Brooklyn > |
