Burn Configuration help

[Martincito]

Hi Guys,

My system is a Flame 8.5 running in Octane 2. We are buying Burn for this machine.
Should we buy the Burn license and the render computers from Discreet or just the Burn and them buy ourselves the computers? What is a good configuration. How many processors?
I work ussually SD but have some projects in HD. I never work in 2k.

Thanks

Martin

[Anonymous]

hi,

basically you could buy the computers yourself, if you stick to the specs, which are not too tight, as you dont need e.g a graphics

best price/performance ratio i heared is 4-8 proc

robert

[Anonymous]

Hi Martin,

Would you mind telling me what the price is for a Burn license….

We’re planning to purchase it for our Flame Oct2 system.

Thanks in Advanced.

Francisco

[Anonymous]

This articles have some information

http://www.fxguide.com/article146.html

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks alot. The artice has info. on pricing.

“Pricing for burn has been set at $5,000US per software license (per render node, not processor), or $16,000US for 4 nodes.”

Does anyone know if this pricing is still valid? Or has there been a drop on the price?

Rgds,

Francisco

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

We have a Flame Oct2, a Smoke Oct2 and a Smoke Linux.

Is there an extra cost per Discreet system that would use the Burn nodes?”

Or I only have to purchase 4 rendernodes with Burn licenses and these can be accessed by any of the 03 Discreet systems that we have??

Rgds,

Francisco

[Martincito]

We received a quotation of $5000 per node + 7600 per render machine + you need another computer to run the render software.

[Anonymous]

chicolima wrote:

Hi guys,

We have a Flame Oct2, a Smoke Oct2 and a Smoke Linux.

Is there an extra cost per Discreet system that would use the Burn nodes?”

Or I only have to purchase 4 rendernodes with Burn licenses and these can be accessed by any of the 03 Discreet systems that we have??

Rgds,

Francisco

I believe that yes, more he will need a bigger infrastructure of network

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5562667

http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/overview_infra.pdf

[Marwood]

chicolima wrote:

Hi guys,

We have a Flame Oct2, a Smoke Oct2 and a Smoke Linux.

Is there an extra cost per Discreet system that would use the Burn nodes?”

Or I only have to purchase 4 rendernodes with Burn licenses and these can be accessed by any of the 03 Discreet systems that we have??

Rgds,

Francisco

You only pay for the Burn licenses and they can be used by as many Discreet systems as you have. You need a PC to run the render manager to assign the jobs.

[Andy Milkis]

Don’t forget about sparks! You need to have sparks installed on every burn render box. One piece of advice is to buy your sparks through discreet when you buy the burn licenses. You can always negotiate some type of “discount” on the software, and the same discount will be applied to the sparks. This can be cheaper than buying the sparks directly from the spark manufacturer.

-Andy

[Jean-Francois Panisset]

Marwood wrote:

chicolima wrote:

Hi guys,

We have a Flame Oct2, a Smoke Oct2 and a Smoke Linux.

Is there an extra cost per Discreet system that would use the Burn nodes?”

Or I only have to purchase 4 rendernodes with Burn licenses and these can be accessed by any of the 03 Discreet systems that we have??

Rgds,

Francisco

You only pay for the Burn licenses and they can be used by as many Discreet systems as you have. You need a PC to run the render manager to assign the jobs.

You also need a Wire license on each system which will be sending Burn jobs (Burn uses Wire to access the framestore of the machine sending the job), so if you don’t already have Wire, that would be an extra cost for each machine which needs to send Burn jobs.

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the useful info.

We already have wire so we’d have to purchase 4 Burn licenses and 4 IBM Dual Proc…

Rgds,

Francisco

[Anonymous]

We offer high density render blades for Burn at a reasonable cost which we will be showing at NAB 06. We have installed Burn at several post facilities. http://www.future-medium.com

[toresen]

for extra umph look at systems running dual dual core opterons, definitely more bang for buck. although opengl stuff will only single thread, sparks fly on all 4 procs.

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