Rendering with 48 cores

[1972jeepcommando]

Hi that was NASA on the phone, they said that they would like their computer back...

[TheDigitalStone]

What is everyone here on about with their dumb comments like:

"Trow Crysis at it"

"Play 300 programs at once"

They have no clue what 3Ds Max is about.

I'd say it's a first time for me i see this fast of a render. It's a real fucking beast of a machine.

[skyflyerone013]

i think this pc is better than the NASA pc's

EPIC, THUMPS UP

[MegaDabedabe]

try playing 300 programs at once!

[noneuno53]

newegg has one of this bords. its a server bord with 4 cpu sockets and will run a 12core server cpu.

[xeonslide]

@darkshark9 : This is amazing mate, if you could share your detailed machine specs would be much appreciated

[herpaderpingames]

Have BF3 and crysis 2 running at the same time.

[moomoomooism]

hmmmmm what motherboard are you running ? please :).....and operating software ?

[LONGSHOTfilmes]

... but can it run ms paint AND... minesweeper at the SAME time? I'd like to see that feat good sir.

[csgtfaught]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

[bobaethan]

Imagine how many FPS you could get wile playing Minecraft.

[hasm0ney]

@bobaethan Minecraft is more dependent on your graphics card. CPU power only plays a role, but not the major one.

[bobaethan]

@hasm0ney I know. First off I was making a joke, second, I have a very high processing end computer with plenty of RAM, but my graphics card is kinda lame so I only get about 80 FPS.

I assume if someone goes through the trouble the trouble of installing 48 cores to do 3D rendering they would install a good graphics card/cards. If it took 2 seconds to render instead of an hour it would have a good graphics card :) Thank you.

[IkethePanda]

@hasm0ney herp diddly derp derp.

[OshiroTG]

Is there any way you could share the program/image to render? I would love to check how my PC would do :P

[ThePhoneUpdate]

But what's truly impressive here is the green Aero, how does that not distract you? :)

[ma9mou9s]

Are you sure this is all local cores?

I see distribute rendering buckets during your render.

Normally, VRay doesn't show you the PC names in the buckets, if you're using local cores to render.

Or is this a special mode, in order to use that many cores?

[blah1311]

Alright it can render, but can it blend ?

[multimediahelp1]

If supported I think 3 or 4 GTX 580 would beat this performance.

[ULTIMATENFSWCrew]

my pc can do that in 3 days...



[blah1311]

@ULTIMATENFSWCrew amen. who needs them 48 cores. Shinanigens.

[jeabo0adhd]

You must be using a server version of windows. Am I right? I don't think the desktop versions can handle more than two sockets. Very powerful by the way. I thought my octal core was good!

[TheVerandaguy]

This reminds me of one of the reasons I never use Ubuntu Linux. It only has support for 4096 cores. What if I need a full 5K?

[TheMsdos25]

@TheVerandaguy source code and modify ubuntu?

[Osukaanimations]

How the FUCK did you do that? I work a lot with real flow and reflecting/refracting materials. Rendering at this speed for animation would be awesome

[shane8109]

Intense

[TheGreatTVH]

theres still nothing like the oldworld charm of my single core pentium 4 3.06ghz

[darkshark9]

@TheGreatTVH Unless you have a deadline to meet on a project that requires intense rendering. Then I say good luck sir.

[TheMsdos25]

play some crysis 2 at max graphics already!!!

[darkshark9]

@TheMsdos25 This thing can calculate 15 million fluid dynamic simulation particles a second and all you have that you can throw at it is Crysis?

[lhomme38]

@darkshark9 battlefield 3 lol

[ERR0R9O9]

@darkshark9 but....can it Run Minecraft on farview?? BET IT CANT! AHAHAHHAHAHAHAH lol

[xTomWillOwnYoux]

@ERR0R9O9 lol i can run far view on my £500 laptop

[ERR0R9O9]

@xTomWillOwnYoux i can't .-.

[NowOrNeverVideo]

@darkshark9 what about skyrim with enhanced textures and animations?

[flamesafety]

@darkshark9 How about Crysis 2, Saints Row 3, and Skyrim at ONCE!!! (at max settings!)

[rshimtheman]

@darkshark9 i bet you it cant get over 100fps on crysis

[Osukaanimations]

@TheMsdos25 wow, you are going to waste a super fast rendering computer on games?

[18SVDesire]

@TheMsdos25 now fill it with cocaine and see if it works

[snedie69er]

@TheMsdos25

Crysis uses 4 cores at best, not 48.

[TheMsdos25]

@snedie69er even with maximum graphics and photo realistic mods?

[snedie69er]

@TheMsdos25

Yes, the game was only coded to use 4 cores.

[Natesteh]

@TheMsdos25 I can't tell if your trolling or just stupid...LMFAO!!

Use it to render the most insane things you can think of, stuff that'll make it take hours to render, lol that'd be intense.

[ym7854]

@TheMsdos25 crysis is CPU lmited you idiot. The program uses only 1 core.

[tocaracer06]

Crysis anyone?

[puntymario]

whoa hold on a second. octo socket? ive never heard of a mobo with 8 sockets on it. you sure it isnt quad socket?

[darkshark9]

@puntymario Quad socket mobo, quad socket expansion.

[MasterHODRahl]

@darkshark9 what brand and board are you using? i cant find one anywhere.

[inb4jelly]

@darkshark9 ? want to expand on that, quite curious.

[HerBDudE420]

Would you care to explain just exactly how the FUCK you did this sir? Seriously I need to know this is brilliant. Does you use 8 hexa-cores or something and if so how the hell do you get them to run with each other. Do you ever think they will make dual socket core i7 cpu motherboards? That would be nice.

[Yarach]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY *throws money at screen*

[insaneAnimeLover]

Isn't the RAM speed important too for raytracing? So if several cpus share the same ram that probably slows down rendering.

Did you benchmark how long it takes to render this scene with only 1 core?

[WatchMann3]

Is it multi-motherboard or 4 cpu's on 1 board?

[mozarthmoob]

@WatchMann3 He probably NETWORKED them for processing. It means you network physical computers to batch parts of a render and then combine them into results. SO he's probably networked like 6 8 core computers to get 48 core processing. Just speculating.

[AltirisX]

Thats awesome.

[letter3able]

it has to have virtual cores dumbass unless you are running 4 12 core opterons which you should have just said

[sebasebusiowy]

Do you have a picture of insides of your unit posted somewhere? I would love to see this 8 cpus sitting in there. And what kind of power supply are you using?

[letter3able]

this is a 24 physical core 48 virtual core machine im jealous as hell but dont need it (still want it though)

[darkshark9]

@letter3able Again. AMD processors don't hyperthread. It's 48 physical cores.

[darkshark9]

@btavv AMD cores don't hyperthead. You're the idiot.

[sebasebusiowy]

How did you put 8 cores in one machine? Some speceial Mother Board?

[letter3able]

@sebasebusiowy wow you are in for a shock i have seen boards that run 4 - 10 core processors its just un-needed by gamers if you are rendering still dont think you need a supercomputer

[sebasebusiowy]

@letter3able This is a bs. Windows can only support two physical CPU's. And if you're doing rendering you actually either need a supercomputer or ,,rendering farm". You obviously never did any serious rendering

[TalesOfWar]

@sebasebusiowy And how do you know he isn't using Windows Server 2008R2 with Aero turned on?

[sebasebusiowy]

@TalesOfWar You're right this might be windows server 2008. I still don't think he has motherboard for 8 cpus. This have to be render farm.

[TalesOfWar]

@sebasebusiowy He'll likely have two machines with 4 sockets each connected to one another over the network with a high bandwidth interlink.

[sebasebusiowy]

@TalesOfWar I know Windows 2008 server can use more then two cpus. Even so I dont think this can be AMD Cpu, as those cant even be used in dual CPU mobos. Also, I'm having hard time finding any info regarding mobos that could use 8 cpus. If you have anything, please let me know. Even if there are mobos like that on the market probably cost of getting 8 separate 6 core machines and putting them in render farm might be lower then getting a motherboard of this kind.

[TalesOfWar]

@sebasebusiowy newegg . com/Product/Product . aspx ? Item = N82E16813151219

*Remove the spaces.

[aksmit4x]

As far as I know only Opteron class processors supported what's needed to run multiple chips in a board, yet alone 8..how can you be using am3 desktop chips...

[sebasebusiowy]

@aksmit4x yeah this movie is some kind of a bullshit. It's physically impossible to do that. I assume he's using windows, sindows supports only to physical cpu's. And Amd CPU's can't do that, you could use only Intel

[sebasebusiowy]

@sebasebusiowy or perhaps this is some kind of rendering farm

[MrBanjo113]

How much ram do you have 160 gig ????

[ryanjohnsond]

Is that CPU or GPU cores?

[lemonzrslim]

can you make a tutorial on how to add another cpu socket to a motherboard?

[MrEmperor3]

niiiice

[issy404]

240p we met again

[mwang217]

It's a shame with all this tech, we still have 240p around. D:

[Sadik0gungor91]

I think rendering with a vga is much faster.

[d3tach3d]

use modo and cut that in 1/2!

[DrKingNigeria]

Filmed with a potato

[xao92k]

@funnyvideos12321 He has 8 CPU slots on his motherboard(s), each one holding a hex (6) core processor = 48 cores.

[xao92k]

Did you sell your kidney or what? lol

[Gazzer96]

I got Intel core i7, 8 processes and each 1 does 1.7GHz... But I think this is much more powerful.

[Frost4k]

@Gazzer96 i7 doesnt have 8 cores it has 4 cores and 4 of them is virtual with ht

[ericohman]

what do i need to build more than 12 cores? like 24 or higher, there aren't any single CPU with that many cores right? are there motherboards that accept dual/triple/quad slots for CPU's or how did you get 48?

amazing!

[ZHAUSQ]

@ericohman

cluster !?

[petsoukos]

@ericohman A 4x Socket Motherboard with 4x 12-Core AMD CPU, you get a 48-Core System. There are 16-Core AMD CPUs coming soon.

[MrAMColes]

@ericohman Look at tyan motherboards, they have some quadsockets for opterons

[TalesOfWar]

@ericohman He most likely combined a few machines together that each have 2-4 CPU sockets per board and shares the load with something like infiniband. Essentially it's a small server cluster or "render farm" in this instance.

[YogscastWannaBe]

And i still only have 2 cores :(

[SapphireHD5850Xtreme]

Can you test LinX 0.6.4 on it?

[spiceylawnmower]

I thought windows didn't support so many cores. I also didn't realize that you could use phenom CPUs in a multi socket set up.

[BrooneyH2V]

Sounds like a jet.

[kweechy]

You need to optimize your bucket size better when throwing that many cores at a job. When the size is too high, you end up waiting on the last few render buckets to finish off which means that 90% of your machine is going completely unused for possibly upwards of 1 minute or more depending on scene complexity.

What I don't understand is how you're running 8 Phenom X6 on a single board. Isn't it impossible to run dual+ CPU with anything but Opterons?

[Disgracefool]

Whoa! I've seen peeps build quad socket machines but not octa socket ones. What were the specs and how are you running windows on it? The Windows 7 Ultimate I use only runs my dual socket board but doesn't allow more sockets than that.

I can only think of Tyan or Supermicro as possibilities here.

[FsimulatorX]

That is something that takes 8hr+ on my AMD X4 5000+

[Deliciousfruit233]

How much did that processor cost? O.O

[0goodoldbismarck0]

Yous should use it for Boinc :D

[GraveUypo]

wait, it's one system with 8 6-cores AMD cpu or is it a render farm with 7 extra computers hooked into it?

if its the former, how much did you spend on that setup?

[1zacster]

Still nothing compared to that 1000 core chip :)

[OshiroTG]

@1zacster 1000...? Where? I've seen the 100 one but 1k?

[1zacster]

@OshiroTG google it, engineers used a special chip where they can "flip" what direction the transistors send signal. it technically processes 1000 physical cores but by no means is so weak isnt even measurable on normal comutational scales.

[OshiroTG]

@1zacster Well I'll be damned ;)

[MrAben1995]

my celeron still rocks :(

[chairmansaab]

@MrAben1995 Because you are playing super mario on it.

[GAKtion64]

@MrAben1995 well my Dual Socket Pentium 3 rocks harder. so ha! (1.13ghz/512/133 and i have 1gb of ram :D)

[Gr8rThenU]

@MrAben1995 D: I threw out a pc that has that lol too slow for my taste :P

[RVArq]

Wow... amazing speed :)



[zhongruiwang]

Hi, why not to try Tyan 4way opteron 6174 configuration?

[KWDproductions]

How did you use 8 Phenom X6 CPUs in a server motherboard? I thought the 8-socket server boards only worked with the Opteron server CPUs?

[StudioGoldsmith]

If my future project will start soon, I will too get a render farm running in the shed.. I'm tihinking of investing an amd phenom II T1100 x6 processor, 2gb ram and 400w power per unit. When I need to get more power, perhaps I will get another one of those running as a farm. Would you have any tips I could use? How do I benefit of ram in rendering?

[darkshark9]

@StudioGoldsmith

ram doesn't exactly speed up the rendering process, but it definitely does help load complex large scenes, so I would say 4gb minimum especially if you work with particles and fluid simulations, as those get to be very large cache sizes.

Instead of the Phenom cores, go with the newer i7 2600k series, they're blazing fast and very stable, only about 100$ more than the Phenom.

[TechtodaProductions]

@darkshark9 or you can get the AMD bulldozer that kicks intels ass

[blissinthemix]

@darkshark9 48cores huh...! what the cost ??? 1000000000000000000000us

[blissinthemix]

sell your old part on ebay ... got any 6core phenom for m3n 78-vm?

[vectoranime123]

@darkshark9 what about opteron 16 cores in a server with 4 cpu

[GamerFreakzCOM]

@darkshark9 $100 could get something more than a intel i7 when he already has chosen a processor so.. shut up instead of giving suggestions that are stupid with money.

[TalesOfWar]

@GamerFreakzCOM How is that "stupid with money" when the i7 2600K's are substantially superior CPU's than the ones he chose? If he wants lots of power for this kind of thing, then going with the more expensive better performing parts makes more sense as it'll reduce the time taken, which more than pays for itself if you're on a deadline.

[gamersforeverr]

In 10 years this will take a blink of the eye..



[pthonbo]

whats the $ behind it mb cpu's and ram ?

[ChoofDoof]

Who the hell disliked this? Obviously someone that's jelly.

[ZbKiT]

@ChoofDoof

I hate those motherfuckers. They go to your videos and if they see you've got a better PC than them they dislike it. And that goes to @elitejuan.

[Xyrosis]

Well that was fast

[darkshark9]

Rendering wouldn't be any faster at all with a solid drive, it caches the image into ram before saving the final image.

It's a quad socket server mb with a quad socket expansion, 8 amd phenom x6 1090T processors. 32gb ripjaw 2000mhz ddr3 ram, a gtx 480 card, and about 4tb between 5 hdd's

[alexruben]

@darkshark9 Do you plan on switching to 12 core Opterons? 96 cores would be a blast! :)

[leninhitlerjuanpablo]

@darkshark9 how much $ did it cost?

[ahmadmukhlis24]

@darkshark9 20000 gb ,wtf is that real. my old pentium 4 only got 40 gb .

[NTGam1ng]

@darkshark9 Where did you get the motherboard you are using, what is the model number?

[OshiroTG]

@darkshark9 Nice :o Can you explain to me the difference in rendering like this(single "3D" image with multiple layers?) And rendering while playing a game, and rendering something filmed with fraps and rendered using sony vegas x? I only have a single 1090T, 8 gigs 2133Mhz ram(On a 1333 motherboard...) and a Gainward 560Ti.

[darkshark9]

@OshiroTG Rendering a complex scene in 3d has to use your cores to calculate lighting information, position data, reflection direction, occlusion, and a plethora of other information for each pixel on the screen...whereas rendering a video screencapture out of an editing program is just calculating 2d data of each pixel, and maybe some transcoding information. More calculations if you have effects and stuff too.

[richyrich55]

You could go faster with an SSD couldn't you?

And can you post the full specs? I'd like to see them :)