WIP Train #15 - Hardware / Software Specs
Added 2019-03-22 12:51:46 +0000 UTCSometimes I get questions about what hardware / software I run. Here are my current hardware specs and also our software setup for the team. The bulk of our rendering jobs for animation is sent to our rendering farm.
For reference, rendering one 1080p frame currently takes around 20mins per GPU. 10 minutes of animation is around 18,000 frames (10 x 60 x 30fps), but with draft renders and cam tests the overall frame count per 10mins is more like 60,000 frames.
- Main computer
- CPU
- 9900K @ 3.6Ghz
- GPUs
- 1 x RTX 2080 for display
- 1 x RTX 2080 Ti for test renders
- Ram
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 2 x SSDs 500GB and 1TB
- 2 x HDDs 10TB and 12TB
- Monitors
- 3 x 4k
- 3 x 4k
- CPU
- Software
- Maya 2018.5 - main 3D software
- Redshift3D - for rendering
- Ornatrix - for hair simulation
- Cinema4D with Xparticles 4.5 - for fluid simulation
- Zbrush 2018.1 - for some blend shapes
- Daz Studio 4.10 - for some asset import / conversion
- After Effects CC 2019 - for video editing
- Audition CC 2019 - for sound editing
- Photoshop CC 2019 - for editing still images
- Renderfarm 40 GPUs
- 3 x GTX Titan X Maxwell
- 11 x GTX 1080 Ti
- 26 x GTX 1070
Comments
So assuming all farms are going at once the process takes 21 days? Interesting.
nope
2019-03-23 18:44:11 +0000 UTCI seriously can't wait!! Every update gets me more & more excited
ponyboy313
2019-03-23 10:58:56 +0000 UTCThe "more like 60,000 frames" is roughly 9 months of 8 hours a day 7 days a week rendering. That is a lot!
TgFervor
2019-03-23 06:09:59 +0000 UTCThanks for sharing all the dirty details, very impressive.
Neptune
2019-03-22 23:30:16 +0000 UTCsounds about right
Affect3D - miro
2019-03-22 22:51:36 +0000 UTCpurely price/ performance 1070 and 1080s are the best value, teslas are theoretically more stable and last longer, but we recycle too often for it to be that useful to us... and we use special software for distributed background rendering
Affect3D - miro
2019-03-22 22:42:41 +0000 UTCnaked always works :)
Affect3D - miro
2019-03-22 22:37:27 +0000 UTC.................... WOW!
ANIMENIAC
2019-03-22 20:09:15 +0000 UTCShould try QUADRO PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS CARDS it's very expensive but really faster and better for graphic work.
dodch
2019-03-22 17:55:13 +0000 UTCPink hair Sophia would be new trend after Bald Cerene. ;D
Dorio
2019-03-22 17:30:16 +0000 UTCAlways good to see any update. So crazy hot, I can't wait to see Cerene, Lanessa and Sophia pound each other and get pounded.
Llama
2019-03-22 16:42:07 +0000 UTCSo it takes around 21 days to render 10 minutes of material at 1080p30fps?
Space Banker
2019-03-22 15:18:39 +0000 UTCwow, nice big boobs
kaitena
2019-03-22 15:13:44 +0000 UTCWould now be an appropriate time to ask for a bump up to 60fps? I'd sacrifice quality for higher frames. 720p at 60fps.
Space Banker
2019-03-22 15:01:14 +0000 UTCWhat a great angle -- Cerene's bout to get slammed =))
iPhantom!
2019-03-22 14:55:19 +0000 UTCImpressive. And though I don’t know anything about rendering I know that just having the HW does not help if SW is not prepared for it. So Maya really supports this strong parallel computing task. Would professional GPU cards like NVIDIAs Tesla further improve the render time? Just for curiosity at 4K€ per Tesla it is a frigging expensive product.
Nebula77
2019-03-22 13:21:58 +0000 UTC
