[rescue] Sun 711

[Shawn Wallbridge]

It's for playback. I think we could do something in Linux, but selling it
would be hard, since everyone knows Fusion.

OK, you got me. It is 24fps. It is for film.

I would think 32bit tiff's (possibly float), but I am not sure. He just said
300MB/s.

We know someone doing it with 2 Adaptec U160 RAID controllers, but they have
some fancy case (possibly the Fortra ones Robert Novak mentioned). I was
trying to come up with something and I immediately thought Sun 711's, but it
doesn't sound like they will work.

shawn

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From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:24 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 711


On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:07:48PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> Yup. x86. No choice. The software only runs under Windows.
>
> Basically this is going to be a video playback machine. 2048x1556
> uncompressed tiffs x 30fps. Steady. It CAN'T drop frames or it is useless.
> The 'plan' so far is.....

OK, when you assumed Fusion, I assumed you meant it was actually going to
be used for compositing.  If it is just playback, then why does it really
need to be windows only?  You should be able to get sequential tiff
playback under linux just fine.  But, that probably would be to hard a sell.

On a side note, why that resolution at 30fps?  That resolution says film
work to me, but films always 24fps I thought.  Or maybe you are just using
an unusual resolution for HDTV work.

Also, you didn't say what sort of tiffs.  24bit?  32bit?  48bit? 64bit?
Or was that .tgas that was used for 48 and 64bit graphics...

> 2xU160 RAID controllers
> 16-24 36GB 15k Cheetah's

> I am just trying to find something to put the drives in. I would like to
get
> a couple 711's, but I need to know if they will operate at U160 or not (I
am
> checking docs.sun.com now).

It seems to me that you are likely to need a third U160 controller, but I
could be wrong.


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Joshua D. Boyd