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Origin 200 used as render nodes?

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Intuition
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Did anyone ever use the Origin 200 as render nodes in combination with an O2 or Octanes?

I remember you could hook up two of them for four processors in all.

Mostly I think people used them as storage drives but since they are servers did anyone use them as farm render nodes?

As in having extra threads for rendering frames on a single render or just a nice way to have firepower for Maya batch renders utilizing the procs and render cpus?
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computron
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i had use an Origin 2000 as render node and an Octane as display for it while using blender

cheers

Eve
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pentium
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Yeah you can craylink two machines together if you want the machines locally but for network render nodes it's totally possible.
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Intuition
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Wow, just randomly today looking at old information stumbled upon an article which has a photo of a 1000 render node farm at PDI/Dreamworks in 2001 and lo a behold.... the nodes are all SGI Origin 200.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803

That must have been a million dollars+ of Origin 200.

JEEZ :o
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Image O2 - R12K-400 Mhz 279 GB HD, 256 MB-RAM :1600SW: 1600sw
:O200: Origin 200 ??? Specs soon
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Intuition wrote: Wow, just randomly today looking at old information stumbled upon an article which has a photo of a 1000 render node farm at PDI/Dreamworks in 2001 and lo a behold.... the nodes are all SGI Origin 200.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803

That must have been a million dollars+ of Origin 200.

JEEZ :o


Well the article says 20% IRIX, so it would be 200 Origin 200s but still, lots of Origins.
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Even before acquiring PDI, DreamWorks in Glendale was rendering using Linux. They have older Origin 200 servers running IRIX but are switching to much cheaper Pentium computers.

So I think the O200s in the photo were in Glendale, and the three racks of O2000s mentioned but not shown were in Palo Alto.
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vishnu
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Almost makes you long for the days when the only organizations that could afford that much IRIX power were the movie studios that were making hundred million dollar blockbusters... :lol:
Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
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World domination! Or something...
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josehill
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vishnu wrote: Almost makes you long for the days when the only organizations that could afford that much IRIX power were the movie studios that were making hundred million dollar blockbusters... :lol:

Don't forget the aircraft manufacturers, mining companies, drug companies, and auto manufacturers! Oh, and the government labs and weather services!
vishnu
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josehill wrote:
vishnu wrote: Almost makes you long for the days when the only organizations that could afford that much IRIX power were the movie studios that were making hundred million dollar blockbusters... :lol:

Don't forget the aircraft manufacturers, mining companies, drug companies, Big Pharma, and auto manufacturers! Oh, and the government labs and weather services!


There, fixed that for ya! ;)

Oh, and Big Oil too... :lol:
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josehill
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vishnu wrote: There, fixed that for ya! ;)

Hey, I resemble that remark! ;)
vishnu
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josehill wrote:
vishnu wrote: There, fixed that for ya! ;)

Hey, I resemble that remark! ;)

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
Plan:
World domination! Or something...
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