Smoke, Flint on LINUX …

[John Montgomery]

BKM wrote:

I may know nothing here… but perhaps the 8bit limitation isn’t really for rendering/processing.. but for stable realtime playback?
BKM

Well…flint has the same limitation. It is actually the FX3000G board that cannot render at 10bits in OpenGL in the way discreet uses the hardware. That’s not to say the board is not not capable of 10bits, but the way the systems products rely on OpenGL hardware rendering for much of their effects.

I’m sure Autodesk is figuring out how to make this work…..

[JJoel]

Folks,

One important piece of info not mentioned so far: Linux does not support software RAID (parity disk). So if you depend on this (like we used do), switching to Linux is a pretty big deal. We are having to figure out new archiving strategies to get around this limitation.

— Joel

[kalthans]

do you mean software raid (like you said) or hardware raid?

i’m pretty sure they have hardware raid. the initial config that the sytems shipped with when we got them were JBOD, but i believe we got the chassis for the hardware raid later

k

[John Montgomery]

kalthans wrote:

i’m pretty sure they have hardware raid. the initial config that the sytems shipped with when we got them were JBOD, but i believe we got the chassis for the hardware raid later

k

Yes…I’ve got the latest flint system (9.5 release) and it is definitely hardware RAID.

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