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Green Canyons Sights
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rashadcarter1

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Kala
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Kala
Description: I'll never get tired of my time tested symmetrical abstracts. Here's one using the Kalaruma setup. This exists at the very center of the Kalaruma continuum and is the nexus of the Luminon collective consciousness.

All comments welcome.
Added by: spektyr
Keywords: Abstract, Symmetrical, 3D, Green, Metaballs, Reflections, Mirrors, Spektyr
Date: 06.03.2008 19:22
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rashadcarter1
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Nice! It does seem to have a consciousness about it, almost like it is viewing the viewer. I has a nice sense of movement.
06.03.2008 19:42 Offline rashadcarter1 rashadcarter1 at aol.com
spektyr
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Thanks, Rashad!

I used to avoid metaballs because of the increased render times but now my render farm upgrade gives me a 100% speed increase so I'll be doing more metaball images. I can't wait to see how fast my new farm will be when I finally have the money to get it. Imagine half a dozen Xi BladeRAIDers with 3.4 GHz Dual Core Xeons. This image took 1H27M to render on my present equipment. How long do you think that BladeRAIDer cluster would take? ;-)
06.03.2008 20:55 Offline spektyr spektyr at aol.com http://www.spektyr.com
davidbrinnen
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Another beautiful abstract piece, a bit overly green for my tastes, but good nevertheless.
06.03.2008 22:42 Offline davidbrinnen mail at davidbrinnen.co.uk http://www.davidbrinnen.com
spektyr
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Thanks, David!!!!

I'm trying not to fixate on specific colors. I used to have preferences but I've been learning to appreciate the whole spectrum. ;-)
06.03.2008 23:03 Offline spektyr spektyr at aol.com http://www.spektyr.com
Render Man
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Very nice. Those metaballs make some very nice abstracts. And Green is my second favorite color.
06.04.2008 04:01 Offline Render Man alreich_4 at msn.com
rashadcarter1
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I am no expert mind you, I could easily be wrong about what I am about to say.
The Raider cluster will take much longer than you would expect Spektyr. I must advise you to consult Horo before you invest in the farm you are describing. He has tested the function of Lightning extensively and understands it profoundly.

For example: I am sure that you already realize that Bryce Lightning does not use all cores of all machines when network rendering. From what I have read Lightning will use all 2,4, or even 8 cores on the host machine, but only 1 core on each peripheral machine, no matter the number of processors these perpherals machines include. Again, I could be wrong about this so please Horo fill in and correct me where I am off key. Bryce Lightning will use only 1 core of only 1 of the Xeon processors in each machine, killing the benefit of the network render as you are describing it above or expecting it to function because 3 cores will remain unused on each peripheral machine in the cluster. Instead of thinking in mulpile dual processor systems or farming the best bet likely is to have as many cores as possible on your single host system as a workstation. Dual cores are great but quadcores are surely better as they get more cores involved in the render. Farming in Bryce is still in the stone ages when most systems were single processor based. Back in those days you needed a farm of individual processors. Nowadays you can get 8 cores on a single system , it eliminates the need for most farm situations and is more efficient because you do not have so many hard drives and monitors and other overhead involved consuming energy.

In short, the most efficient and effective configuration for a cluster would be a single workstation with 8 cores, like the one I am running now with very pleasing results. When set to high priority I know that all 8 cores at 2.5ghz each gives me 20ghz of raw processing power for my project. I am only running one system, one monitor, one keyboard, one everything meaning much less energy consumption. All of the energy is piped into the processors.
06.04.2008 07:48 Offline rashadcarter1 rashadcarter1 at aol.com
spektyr
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Thanks Guys!

Rashad-

By comparison a single BladeRAIDer set up the way I plan has to be much faster than my fastest system, P4 1.8 GHz, 133 FSB, 768 Meg PC800 RDRAM. I fully realize that Lightning will use only 1 CPU. Bryce has multi-core support but will it be faster than a multi-system cluster using Lightning? Not having any experience with the new multi-core processors my question is, "Does XP 64 see individual processor cores as separate CPUs?" Despite that situation the overall processing speed of the BladeRAIDer, with it's 1.6 GHz FSB and a 3.4 GHz Dual Core Xeon using only 1 core must be much faster than my P4 1.8. Also, DAZ may eventually write a new Lightning version that takes full advantage of multi-core systems. ;-)

I do respect your advice so I'll start a discussion on this subject in the forums. ;-)
06.04.2008 12:34 Offline spektyr spektyr at aol.com http://www.spektyr.com
Horo
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Nice green cross here, spektyr. Looks really nice.

Right, Lightning only uses one core on the host and client machines. The slowest machine dictates how much you gain on a network render. There is a workaround though, proposed by someone on the DAZ forum and I've tested it: use as many virtual machines minus one as your computer has cores. Each one gets a fake MAC address and an IP address that is found. You can start a render farm on one PC with multiple cores this way. The speed won't double but you get about 150 to 175% instead of 200% on a dual core. The rest is used for overhead.

Still a considerable gain if you have several multi core machines. As I see it, DAZ has postponed Bryce updates to a few years after the Universe has ended for good (get a drink at the restaurant at the end of it and watch).

I also found out that modern machines give you more computer/render power per Watt sucked out the wall outlet. It just doesn't pay to build up a farm of 20 computers using 15 W each. It will be considerable slower than a single 300 W machine. I wanted to go that way and after I've installed the first low power one, I've learned the lesson. Don't repeat it. Look the summary at http://www.horo.dyndns.org if you listen to a good ment advice.
06.04.2008 15:30 Offline Horo h.-r.h.wernli at bluewin.ch https://www.horo.ch/


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