Buying SGI Equipment
07-Jul-95 11:06:00
Sb: #178784-Buying SGI Equipment
Fm: Guy Galer 76366,1244
To: Bradley J. Artigue 75352,3716
I get your argument, but I have always wanted as much power as I could on one
machine than spreading it out. Why? For me, developing the objects and laying
the scene out takes up most of my time. Having 200 486 would be a big
rendering farm, but would take me forever to create anything.
The other argument is that comparing CPUs speed is not a great comparision
between two seperate machines. For example, the Amiga had a much faster OS
that IBM because it handled graphics much better. SGI was built for graphics,
so I think that would come into play.
Final note, the cost of memory and hard disk space comes into play with render
farms. Not wanting to go into the math, but having 32 Meg of memory and a
large harddrive on each machine starts tacking onto the cost.
I am arguing for SGi right now, but I have not wrote the check yet. Thanks for
the response.