External CPU's

m2tts · June 29, 2011, 02:02:26 PM

I thought I had read on some forum that there was an external box you could get that would basically let you access additional cpu's, to really give a boost to multithreaded tasks like rendering. Am I just imagining this, or has anybody heard of such a thing. I ask, because the frame rates I get out of my Precision laptop (with four cores) is atrocious.

Thanks

Josh3D · June 29, 2011, 02:15:46 PM

Are you talking about building a render farm? If so, you can do this on your own. There are a lot of articles on it out there. I like this one http://helmer.sfe.se/

m2tts · June 30, 2011, 06:17:02 AM

No, what i thought I remember was a little box that you plugged into your USB or Sata connection that contained multicore processors. These would give your own machine more cores.

PhilippeV8 · June 30, 2011, 10:36:02 AM

Must've been something from Boxx ?

http://www.boxxtech.com/products/renderPRO/pro_overview.asp

Browse their products ... I think they got it.

Speedster · June 30, 2011, 11:33:45 AM

Yes, it is the Boxx. I saw it running KeyShot at Siggraph last year. I think it had 72 cpu's or something, "burning" the competition!
Bill G

m2tts · June 30, 2011, 12:48:19 PM

Yes, that is what I was remembering. Thanks, i will check it out.

m2tts · June 30, 2011, 01:43:30 PM

So the Boxx Renderpro line looks like it's treated as a render farm. Does Keyshot support htis or is there some other software that is required? Does it allow you to use the Boxx to speedup your workflow within KeyShot or is it just used to send a rendering to?

guest84672 · July 01, 2011, 07:49:07 AM

We have shown the concept of realtime raytracing across a network last year at Siggraph. We have not made it publicly available at this point in time.

eric · July 01, 2011, 09:40:52 AM

Cool! When will this be available?

guest84672 · July 01, 2011, 03:16:11 PM

No release date has been set as of yet.

lipase · March 05, 2012, 05:45:41 AM

Perhaps hiring or buying computing power on a cloud system would be a more cost efficient way to do it? Less hassle setting everything up and no maintenance on your part

Will · September 18, 2013, 11:05:04 AM

I'm not sure if anyone is looking at this thread any more but I've also been interested in a box solution that could scalable.
I found workstation specialists in here in the UK do this
http://www.workstationspecialist.com/rendering_systems/rs-d/

Does this do what you want?

External CPU's

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