What's in your kitchen? -Or- The beginnings of a DIY render farm with the *Real* stuff
Heh, I haven't been posting much publicly; as I have been working my tail off or ranting and raving in a secret, evil journal. But here's something to chat about because I am also looking for anyone with any ideas to help make the job smoother. Otherwise, I will eventually figure it all out. But here's what's in the kitchen...
I am changing focus in my hobbies, and of course, one needs the proper equipment to service those needs. I got WAY lucky, I got a hold of this stuff from a fellow that was going to toss it all away in the first place! In the kitchen (because i do not have room elsewhere at the moment) and much to the chagrin of
Prismo , I have a *stack* of SGI Indy-2's.
They are all MIPS RS4400/200's, half of them having the famed xZ quad graphic processor engines. I have another two processor engines coming to fully load these systems out, max out their RAM and enough "junk" boxes to make for spare parts to keep them running. I also have my paws on an Oxygen cube and an Octane, both MIPS RS10000 based, the Octane being a dual processor beast. Then there is the Sun I intend to actually model and simulate on:
Now, the idea here is to have the data that the Sun is crunching be translated real time into a format/script that can be fired across network to the SGI cluster. The SGI cluster will then process the streamed data and graphically represent the model being simulated and tested on the Sunblade 2000. This machine bears 4 gigs of RAM, dual 900 Cu+ UltraSPARC III processors w/16mb cache shared between them and a 35GB x2 fiber channel disk array. It also features a *monster* Sun made XVR-1200 dual processor graphics array. (So there is no lack of real time modeling power, even on the Sunblade, but that machine's strength is primarily in processing mathematical data and controlling scientific instrumentation as it is currently outfitted for.
If anyone has render farmed before, using Sun at the core for making and computing models and then sending data off across network to clustered SGI systems for the real time visualization of the model - chime in. I am all ears and have access to a hefty amount of software for both systems. For the curious, I am modeling and prototyping multi-fuel capable gas turbine engines. I specifically need to see the effects of barrier flow within the engine and thermal modeling. Mucho thanks folks!
I am changing focus in my hobbies, and of course, one needs the proper equipment to service those needs. I got WAY lucky, I got a hold of this stuff from a fellow that was going to toss it all away in the first place! In the kitchen (because i do not have room elsewhere at the moment) and much to the chagrin of
Prismo , I have a *stack* of SGI Indy-2's.
They are all MIPS RS4400/200's, half of them having the famed xZ quad graphic processor engines. I have another two processor engines coming to fully load these systems out, max out their RAM and enough "junk" boxes to make for spare parts to keep them running. I also have my paws on an Oxygen cube and an Octane, both MIPS RS10000 based, the Octane being a dual processor beast. Then there is the Sun I intend to actually model and simulate on:
Now, the idea here is to have the data that the Sun is crunching be translated real time into a format/script that can be fired across network to the SGI cluster. The SGI cluster will then process the streamed data and graphically represent the model being simulated and tested on the Sunblade 2000. This machine bears 4 gigs of RAM, dual 900 Cu+ UltraSPARC III processors w/16mb cache shared between them and a 35GB x2 fiber channel disk array. It also features a *monster* Sun made XVR-1200 dual processor graphics array. (So there is no lack of real time modeling power, even on the Sunblade, but that machine's strength is primarily in processing mathematical data and controlling scientific instrumentation as it is currently outfitted for.
If anyone has render farmed before, using Sun at the core for making and computing models and then sending data off across network to clustered SGI systems for the real time visualization of the model - chime in. I am all ears and have access to a hefty amount of software for both systems. For the curious, I am modeling and prototyping multi-fuel capable gas turbine engines. I specifically need to see the effects of barrier flow within the engine and thermal modeling. Mucho thanks folks!