Hi!
I'm buying a new comp and I have a crazy idea. Until now, I was
thinking about single workstation: dual Opteron 2.2Gh and rest to
match. Now, the part I don't like is that for a great deal of money, I
get a comp that (if it's possible to calculate this way) works at
about 4Gh. As the processing speed is my priority, that's not enough,
especially in respect to the cost.
Now, I'm probably talking nonsense, but... I always hear stories about
Render Farms, so... What if I have a Node, say 2.0Gh with 512 RAM,
motherboard, LAN and case. If I take 10 of those, I still have enough
for a Server: single low-end Xeon or even high-end P4, hard, graphics
card etc. Now I have (not that I know anything about RenderFarms) 20Gh
of processing speed. It's not just way faster than 4Gh: if a single
node is damaged, the rest od the farm is still operational.
So, I believe this post made many of you laugh. However, the question
is: am I paying everything but performance when buying a high-end
single comp, and is there more sense in buying a farm, even less
ambitious?
P.S. Sory about my english...
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