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R3 Network Rendering

    16-Oct-93 15:16:04
Fm: Jamie Clay [Adesk] 76703,4204
To: Angelo Guarino [DTI Inc] 70323,3375
I would have to agree with Greg, 4 machines is not enough for anyone running a major service but I'll agree with you that 4 certainly make for a great 'render garden' (not quite farm size). We currently have 16 machines on-line but 8 to 10 are used by my staff durring the day. That leaves us short for rendering durring business hours. I expect we'll be expanding the rendering 'field' before too long. Now if the 4 machines you have are Pentium CPUs, that's a whole new ball game. My early tests with the Compaq Pentium show it to be 40% faster than a DX-2/66. In cases like that 4 sort of = 6 and that qualifies you for render farm status. 😉