[Bf-committers] Opteron/Blender

[Matthew H Plough (mplough at Princeton.EDU)]

Hi Campbell and everyone else!

I'm running Windows 2000 right now; the Opterons absolutely rock in 32-bit mode.  Blender runs great on my system, and renders very fast, especially in multithreaded mode.  

I was running Suse Linux 9.1/AMD64-smp on the box for a while, and it was the worst OS I've ever used.  Everything kept segfaulting, and GNOME support was horrendous.  There wasn't any Linux driver for my card at the time, so I didn't get the chance to run Blender on it.  The processors are stable enough, but the distro was awful.  

3dlabs recently released a Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver for my card, so I might try to hack the driver into a nicer distro, like Slackware or Ubuntu.  Sorry I couldn't say more about the Blender side of things.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: Campbell Barton <cbarton at metavr.com>
Date: Monday, February 7, 2005 9:29 am
Subject: [Bf-committers] Opteron/Blender

> Hi Mat. H , I read that you had a dual Opteron, what OS are you 
> running 
> on, would you recommend these CPU's for Blender?
> is 64bits stable enough for production use with blender at the moment?
> Thanks
> - Cam