[Bf-committers] Raspberry Pi render farm

[Markus Kasten]

I think, something like HP's Project Redstone with their "EnergyCards" would be way more efficient if you want energy efficient rendering on ARM chips. Here's an article about them: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_servers/; there is also a nice article on heise for germans. Probably quite expensive, if you want to build your own renderfarm and due to their limited memory (4GB?) not too perfect for rendering complex scenes.

Greetings,
Markus K.

Von meinem iPad gesendet

Am 19.02.2012 um 12:00 schrieb bf-committers-request at blender.org:

> I was wondering if this ARM computer that can run Debian could be used to build a render farm. It only cost $35 with Ethernet, it only needs 5V and it only uses around 2 watts as far as I understand.
> I just guess it would need a lot less power than the PC solution at the Blender Institute right now. Getting several hundred would not be out of range and I also guess the savings in power would make up for it... anyway I'm not sure if this would be possible but I wanted to put this thought out in the open: 
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/
> For example, maybe it would be a nice side project for Mango to build a open source render farm based on Raspberry Pi... 
> Regards,
> Markus Schulz