I might be able to get something like a Dell PowerEdge M905

with 4 x AMD Opteron or 4 x Xeon 2.00GHz/18M/6.40


Can I effectively run POV-Ray on something like this?
What OS, pros / cons, etc...


Thanks   :)

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> I might be able to get something like a Dell PowerEdge M905
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> with 4 x AMD Opteron or 4 x Xeon 2.00GHz/18M/6.40
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>
> Can I effectively run POV-Ray on something like this?
> What OS, pros / cons, etc...
>
>
> Thanks   :)
>
>

Windows pro support 1 or 2 CPUs and up to 256 cores, dont'know about the 
server version. Lesser versions only support single multi-core CPU.
Linux can probably cope with that.

POV-Ray will run correctly on that hardware, as long as the OS correctly 
support it.

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I might be able to get something like a Dell PowerEdge M905
>
> with 4 x AMD Opteron or 4 x Xeon 2.00GHz/18M/6.40
>
>
> Can I effectively run POV-Ray on something like this?
> What OS, pros / cons, etc...
>
>
> Thanks   :)

i do not have any specific knowledge about that unit but it appears to be a
blade so it would require an enclosure.  also it appears to be for opteron 8000
series; the best of that series that passmark (cpubenchmark.net) lists is 8439
se which has a somewhat insipid score.
  also what alain mentioned, and that these servers sometimes have proprietary
drivers.  using linux flavors could be problematic.

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"green" <rov### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

Right, it's a blade, though some have the Xeon in them, and I figured even if it
wasn't an amazing processor, there would be _24_ cores and room for like 96 GB
of memory, which would sort of make up for that  ;)

I'm not sure if I could power and cool it without the enclosure (it's _massive_
- and we have 6  :O ) and Alain's point about the proprietary drivers, etc.  is
something I was concerned about.

Thanks for your input!  :)

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