[Tig] where.. neutral review RED?

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:17 PM, throb - Robert Nederhorst wrote:

> also untrue.  i have 200 machines at the office, all running windows
> for a renderfarm. they crunch a TON of data every day.  file sizes are
> anywhere from 60mb to 500mb in size.
> for 3d rendering and 2d compositing, we have experienced little
> problems other than the ones that everyone experiences when setting up
> a somewhat large computing cluster.


forgive me for being perhaps a few iterations behind the times with  
Windows, but are these machines dedicated to a renderfarm and nothing  
else?  if so perhaps they are underused because:

the advantage, when I adminstered an animation studio, was that any  
machine- desktop or renderfarm-based, if running Linux, could handle  
multiple logins, threading, and background rendering, without  
hampering the at-console user (as Windows did)?


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