[Beowulf] 3d rendering cluster

[Lombard, David N]

From: Robert G. Brown on Monday, May 23, 2005 10:53 AM
> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2005, Paul K Egell-Johnsen wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I'm tasked to find prices for a solution involving a rack mounted 3d
> > rendering farm, but after searching a bit on the net (and more
> > importantly on this list) I've yet to find some simple answers to
the
> > following question(s):
> >
> > What is the most important part for a 3d rendering farm; memory to
> > each processor, processor speed and/or access to SAN?
> 
> That's because this question doesn't have a simple answer.  It has a
> simple (enough) method for determining an answer.  To provide a
possibly
> useful metaphor:
> 
>  What's the most important part of a pizza delivery service: the speed
>  of the cook making the pizza, the speed of the people taking the
>  orders, or the speed of the delivery boy?

I'd like to nominate RGB's Pizza Analogy as the One True Response to the
myriad questions that need the "It Depends(TM)" speech...

-- 
David N. Lombard

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