Sony Introduces PS3-based ZEGO Video Rendering System

[chnandler_bong]

Originally Posted by Xerios

Its a 1U rack mountable server?


EDIT.. re-read it yeh it is. i work as a tech for HP and work with these types of servers... nothing with the power of this though. especially in a 1U server
lets see it up against an RX machine though =P

Psssh...HP servers...RX machines

IBM Power servers eat your RX servers and superdomes for breakfast yo!

[Paradox69]

Originally Posted by chnandler_bong

Psssh...HP servers...RX machines

IBM Power servers eat your RX servers and superdomes for breakfast yo!

Pssst..... IBM Power Servers are not what you need for Multi-purpose Render Farms. They are for Databases!

They are featuring a new PowerVM Active Memory Sharing that can flow virtual memory from/to many partitions, giving physical memory a boost with these management tools. Don't forget we are talking XDR and Rambus FLEX Bus Speed and Technology. This is no DDR2 or 3 couch potatoes!

So although a Power 570 is indeed almost twice as fast as HP Superdomes, we are talking different workloads altogether as well as RX machines.

These new ZEGO 1U rack systems are not even close to being meant for Database use. They are specifically for Render Farms and both RSX and Cell BDE are utilized fully.

This is a new World and we have RSX GPU on these new units doing General Purpose Parallel computing that kills even the Cell. Combined, they are ideal for Render Farms because they can also do Multi-calculations and Rendering!!! ......is Power 570 better at Database? Yes, but for this job, they aren't even in the same ballpark when combined in a rack system!!!

[WriteSimply]

Anybody worked with these or HP's Cell-based Blade servers? Need to know what the interface is like for offloading render jobs to these units. If it can work with Blender, that's great.


fuad

[chnandler_bong]

Originally Posted by Paradox69

Pssst..... IBM Power Servers are not what you need for Multi-purpose Render Farms. They are for Databases!

They are featuring a new PowerVM Active Memory Sharing that can flow virtual memory from/to many partitions, giving physical memory a boost with these management tools. Don't forget we are talking XDR and Rambus FLEX Bus Speed and Technology. This is no DDR2 or 3 couch potatoes!

So although a Power 570 is indeed almost twice as fast as HP Superdomes, we are talking different workloads altogether as well as RX machines.

These new ZEGO 1U rack systems are not even close to being meant for Database use. They are specifically for Render Farms and both RSX and Cell BDE are utilized fully.

This is a new World and we have RSX GPU on these new units doing General Purpose Parallel computing that kills even the Cell. Combined, they are ideal for Render Farms because they can also do Multi-calculations and Rendering!!! ......is Power 570 better at Database? Yes, but for this job, they aren't even in the same ballpark when combined in a rack system!!!

That's a good point, well said. I still wuv my database servers! *hugs his 570s*