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hi every body .. any body know is the new smoke 7 on linux IBM is as good as the OCTAIN ,,, i heard that it is faster !!!!!
Soooo much faster on linux.
iam surrprised ,,, why we have to bay very expensive mony to have Octain ,although we can get much cheeper OPTRON IBM work station ?can you till me which model you work with , i know that there is two machine , small and big , do you have the spectes for it
A fully configured 2K smoke on Linux is no more or less expensive than 2K smoke on sgi Tezro (although the Linux storage works out more because you currently need 2 hardware raided disk arrays) But for overall performance, the Linux boxes are surprisingly fast.
I don’t know if there will be a decrease in the price of the IBM stations if Autodesk abandon all support for sgi.TW
TurboWidget wrote:A fully configured 2K smoke on Linux is no more or less expensive than 2K smoke on sgi Tezro (although the Linux storage works out more because you currently need 2 hardware raided disk arrays) But for overall performance, the Linux boxes are surprisingly fast.
I don’t know if there will be a decrease in the price of the IBM stations if Autodesk abandon all support for sgi.TW
why the Linux box need two arrays?
As it stands right now, to get realtime 2K with flame or smoke on Linux the data throughput is spread across 2 fibre channel controllers and storage arrays. I think it might have something to do with a limitation within Linux. (or at least Autodesk’s implementation of it, I might be wrong)
You can get away with single fibre controller and single drive array for SD & HD work. But in both cases, the drives need hardware raid protection. (I guess you could skip this, but run the risk of losing everything if a single drive goes down, not something you want to happen in a client session)cheers
TW
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