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Ultimate Rendering System for Terragen ???
Ultimate Rendering System for Terragen ???
Started by cyphyr, March 17, 2007, 04:10:55 PM
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cyphyr
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Ultimate Rendering System for Terragen ???
March 17, 2007, 04:10:55 PM
I'm no tech expert so please forgive my ignorance here. Terragen is still in its early development stage but I think we can start to see how it will evolve over the next year to final release. I was wondering what would be the ultimate/best/most rreasonable rendering system. Given that multiple threads/cores will be supported are there any specific points to bear in mind when building a setup for running terragen? Is there any real differance between AMD and Intel? What kind of setup gives best bang for buck? I'm sure that the 3d preview will be inprooved but I dont see it taking advantage of some of the more esoteric opengl functions available in some graphics chipsets. That said X-Fire (or is it Cross Fire) support would be cool if it improoved redraw times.
Whats everyones thoughts on this?
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March 18, 2007, 09:42:10 PM
There are rumors that an 8-core Apple Mac Pro is going to be released soon. That would be the ultimate rendering system for Terragen, since Terragen doesn't use video cards for the final render, only processors.
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March 18, 2007, 09:52:44 PM
Yeah, the 8-core machine would be pretty awesome
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March 18, 2007, 10:31:41 PM
that is if terragen 2 gets optimised to use all 8 cores
it would be awesome at rendering no doubt
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March 18, 2007, 11:54:41 PM
Matt said once that he will try to optimize Terragen so that it will take as many cores as there are available
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March 19, 2007, 12:50:36 AM
something like what Apophysis has would be great where it lets you select how many cores your cpu has up to 8cores...
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March 19, 2007, 03:32:45 PM
Programming for multiple cores is difficult.
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March 20, 2007, 01:05:59 AM
I once saw on apple website, they were offering this:
A 16 Core processor
16TB HDD
8TB Ram
About 4GB of Video Memory (dont remember this figure exactly)
plus other accessories including 30" Apple Cinema Display
It was all adding up to the price of US$16000 (I am not making this up)
now THAT would be an Ultimate Rendering System for Terragen
But I dont see that page anymore....and ya....this was before Intel chips were introduced into MAC's
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March 20, 2007, 03:17:22 AM
that hardly looks like a desktop pc 8TB of ram?
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March 20, 2007, 11:08:36 AM
it is not windows based pc...its MAC
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March 20, 2007, 12:11:13 PM
dhavalmistry - even though I would love it if Apple came out with one of those, I don't see it happening right now. I don't think you could fit 4TB RAM inside anything smaller than a room
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March 20, 2007, 12:41:08 PM
you guys dont believe me......I am gonna have to find that page....
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March 20, 2007, 01:46:56 PM
Perhaps it's Apple bending the figures by using the decimal system instead of the binary and sneakily putting Tb instead if TB. The RAM is definitely the most suspicious figure there - 8TB of RAM is very high considering the hard drive only has a capacity of 16TB...
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March 20, 2007, 01:58:06 PM
Yeah... Apple usually doesn't do that, though. If you look at their current pages, everything is in honest-to-goodness GB and TB.
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March 20, 2007, 02:01:12 PM
sorry guys...my bad....its not computer...it is Xserve (Raid server)
They have changed the page since I last visited about 2 years ago.....
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/canadastore.woa/6564005/wo/x25M2YnROVgD2ZMh8EMjCZRjlxi/2.?p=0
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