[geeks] Inventories and Wish Lists (again)

[Gary Nichols]

Isn't that a lot of hardware just to make animated pr0n GIF files?

*ducking*
:-)

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:58:56PM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> > Well since we've all been talking about what kind of hardware (IBM this
> > time) we have, and we want I think it's time to update those inventories and
> > wish lists again.
> 
> I'll cut the list of what I have and go straight to what I want.
> 
> 3 dual processor G4 macs.  One will be a protools station, one an avid 
> station, and one for personaly work.  All of them need to be dual head.  Would
> consider it acceptable for two of these to be much older than G4 if we are 
> trying to be realistic.  For instance, the protools and avid could be older.
> The personal use one would run Lightwave, Painter, photoshop, illustrator,
> native compilers, combustion, etc.
> 
> 1 Octane2.  V10 or V12 graphics.  Or, even an MXE dual processor octane.  
> Digital video option, of course.  Of course it has to have the dev kit also.
> 
> 1 rack of nice Sun boxes.  The idea is to get the maximum amount of CPU power
> and RAM in.  Latency between machines is mainly a non issue since this is the
> render farm.
> 
> 1 or 2 cray J90s for physics simulations.  I want that hair and liquid to be
> as realistic as possible.  I take after the blue sky method for CG.
> 
> These 6-7 computers should all be on a san with close to a terrabyte of 
> storage.
> 
> After that, some miscelanous machine with a lot of PCI slots for driving a
> house wide FLAC system.  Thinking some sort of Sun is probably best.  Also,
> a nice Sun E series or Power Challenge, or something for database work.
> 
> And there should be a number of machines for other projects, etc.  Firewalls,
> routing, phone system. etc.
> 
> Is this really too much to ask?
> 
> 

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