building a flame system

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Strictly for educational purpose, I wonder if it’s possible to build a system to run Flame.

If it’s possible, what is the bare minimum to run Flame?
DO I really need those Stone diskarray? How about a SCSI diskarray?

Thanks for your help.

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deepbite wrote:

Strictly for educational purpose, I wonder if it’s possible to build a system to run Flame.

If it’s possible, what is the bare minimum to run Flame?
DO I really need those Stone diskarray? How about a SCSI diskarray?

Thanks for your help.

For Educational purposes: well if your an educational inst. then Discreet have very friendly programs to help..
if your thinking of building one for your own education – there is no personal eval licence I know of.. but your local discreet guys can often provide a systems with temp licences if your seriously evaluating a system. As its IRIX no hack/crack of Flame ( thank god.. as a facility we’d hate to compete with cowboys using unpaid cracked versions of flame – the market is competitve enough thanks !)

But if you have a licence – then no you don’t NEED a stone, – I have seen R&D engineers with 30 frame framestores while writing code – just enough to make the software run ( of course non-stones is not supported/encourgaed/etc) nor will it work with flame like performance. What you can’t do right now is build a flame with 3rd party disc arrays. You can’t just spec your own system. This may change in the future but Stones are the way to go right now.

As far as systems go.. the bare min h/w depends on which version of the software you want to run. Flint runs happily on a single CPU Octane, but older versions ran on O2 s .. so I would recommend getting an old 2nd hand system – but upgrading may not be an option without serious expense.

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