dalewakelin
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I need some help, i am wanting to build a render farm for under £1000 and i dont know what parts i need as i have never built one before.
Render Farms/Render Servers
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dugdiamond
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i think you need to do more research.
an efficient render farm cannot built for under £1000, as a 'farm' is many drone-PCs connected to a render-server.
the most efficient rendering-solution for under £1000 would probably be an i7-2700K with a CUDA GPU.
an i7-3960X would be your best bet but is not in your budget.
with that said though, the license for a render manager, alone, would exceed your budget.
where did you get that figure from?
dalewakelin
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not so much a farm but something that will be primarily for rendering, is intel xeon worth looking at because i can get hold of a dual socket motherboard and 2 intel xeons from a computer shop
dalewakelin
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its just how much money i have set aside for it
dugdiamond
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a farm:
1... a render server
2... the drones (workstations)
3... a network splitter
...and that is just the hardware, without licenses for the OSs, and the modellings apps, and the other licenses
1... a render server
- a powerful enough CPU to cope with managing the render workloads, and perform other tasks, without bottlenecking. the more cores/threads the better.
- a decent mobo with two ethernet connections... one for broadband (shared). the other for network.
- a large amount of memory... 8GB+
- RAID'd mass storage... to be shared across the network
- small boot drive (SSD)
- case
- optical drive... to be shared across the network
- PSU + power surge security
- preferably CUDA GPU
2... the drones (workstations)
- a powerful enough CPU, with the more cores/threads the better.
- a decent mobo with one ethernet connection... for network.
- a large amount of memory... 8GB+
- small boot drive (SSD)
- case
- PSU + power surge security
- preferably CUDA GPU
3... a network splitter
...and that is just the hardware, without licenses for the OSs, and the modellings apps, and the other licenses
dalewakelin
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Here is the board im wanting to use
dalewakelin
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a farm:
1... a render server
- a powerful enough CPU to cope with managing the render workloads, and perform other tasks, without bottlenecking. the more cores/threads the better.
- a decent mobo with two ethernet connections... one for broadband (shared). the other for network.
- a large amount of memory... 8GB+
- RAID'd mass storage... to be shared across the network
- small boot drive (SSD)
- case
- optical drive... to be shared across the network
- PSU + power surge security
- preferably CUDA GPU
2... the drones (workstations)
- a powerful enough CPU, with the more cores/threads the better.
- a decent mobo with one ethernet connection... for network.
- a large amount of memory... 8GB+
- small boot drive (SSD)
- case
- PSU + power surge security
- preferably CUDA GPU
3... a network splitter
...and that is just the hardware, without licenses for the OSs, and the modellings apps, and the other licenses
thanks
dalewakelin
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the board is going to cost me about £60 and 2 intel xeons for this board will be about £100 and 32 gb of ram will be about £200 psu will be about £60 and im getting 6 hard drives for about £50(second hand) and a ssd about £60 and optical drive i can probably get for free. And 2 low end graphics cards for £100. I already have a case that i modded my self and raid card will be about £30, and 2 Ethernet port extender thing will be about £10. Its for personal use so i wont need to much expensive software. It should cost about £600 just for hardware and for os and stuff will be about £150. I already have softwares on disc.
dalewakelin
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Just as i want to start doing graphics and stuff professionally and faster.
dalewakelin
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I just looked at the price and thats not a bad idea however all my software is for windows
dalewakelin
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somebody has just been an absolute legend and given me a server it has 2 AMD opterons, 16gb ram, 2 75gb HDDs and windows something pro 64bit. All this i got for free
dugdiamond
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Hmmmm !!!!
dalewakelin
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lol (I detect envy?)
dalewakelin
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looks like i will get it in budget then lol
This isnt the one im getting, its a Z model and im getting A model (which is better)
This isnt the one im getting, its a Z model and im getting A model (which is better)
dalewakelin
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My news list for server(i may need some help getting it right)
Dale
I'm not trying to crush dreams or anything here and your enthusiasm is brilliant but that isn't by any stretch of the imagination a rendering machine.
You're looking at 2 single core processors possibly 2 dual core processors based on 90nm tech at best circa 2005-7.
I've got a Dell T5400 sat on my desk at work which is running a pair of quad core E5's and it takes 20 minutes to open a pre-rendered cad file, for comparison my I7 opens it in 2 and my QX6850 opens it in 7.
I'm not saying don't waste your time at all, but I would be prepared for less than stellar performance with the hardware you've got.
And don't try pairing DDR3 memory with that motherboard it's a DDR Standard motherboard it'll physically not fit. It may even require ECC RAM as is the case with a large proportion of Workstation systems. I wouldn't change the PSU either as if IBM/LENOVO are anything like DELL/HP/FUJITSU then the PSU will be a fairly reasonable manufacturer anyway. It's also not unheard of for manufacturers to make proprietary connectors for their systems rendering your ATX Standard PSU useless.
Cheers
Lee
I'm not trying to crush dreams or anything here and your enthusiasm is brilliant but that isn't by any stretch of the imagination a rendering machine.
You're looking at 2 single core processors possibly 2 dual core processors based on 90nm tech at best circa 2005-7.
I've got a Dell T5400 sat on my desk at work which is running a pair of quad core E5's and it takes 20 minutes to open a pre-rendered cad file, for comparison my I7 opens it in 2 and my QX6850 opens it in 7.
I'm not saying don't waste your time at all, but I would be prepared for less than stellar performance with the hardware you've got.
And don't try pairing DDR3 memory with that motherboard it's a DDR Standard motherboard it'll physically not fit. It may even require ECC RAM as is the case with a large proportion of Workstation systems. I wouldn't change the PSU either as if IBM/LENOVO are anything like DELL/HP/FUJITSU then the PSU will be a fairly reasonable manufacturer anyway. It's also not unheard of for manufacturers to make proprietary connectors for their systems rendering your ATX Standard PSU useless.
Cheers
Lee
dugdiamond
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i, and many others, implore your ideas... even though they seem to be a bit dreamy.
9 out of 10 for effort, but you really need to research (and understand) every component in your builds.
reading over all of your posts, your profile and your 'sig', it seems that you are trying to run before you can walk!
i admire enthusiasm in such a young person, but you need to slow down...
and to be constructive:
...DWindustries - Help, News, Reviews and Graphics... !!!! ...the site is just a holder for your pics... what News..? what reviews..? and why offer 'Tech Help', when it seems you do not know much, as you are asking US for the help?
9 out of 10 for effort, but you really need to research (and understand) every component in your builds.
reading over all of your posts, your profile and your 'sig', it seems that you are trying to run before you can walk!
i admire enthusiasm in such a young person, but you need to slow down...
and to be constructive:
...DWindustries - Help, News, Reviews and Graphics... !!!! ...the site is just a holder for your pics... what News..? what reviews..? and why offer 'Tech Help', when it seems you do not know much, as you are asking US for the help?
