[Bf-cycles] Cycles on High-end Hardware

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

To narrow down the problem, there's a few things you could do:

* Test if it crashes with a simple file as well, e.g. the default
cube, or if it's something that is specific to your .blend file.
* Test rendering the file on your own computer with many threads (in
the Performance panel, set to 1040?), and see if that crashes too.
* Get a backtrace of the crash, see here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Tools/Debugging/GDB

Brecht.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, CG Cookie <jonathan at cgcookie.com> wrote:
> Hi Brecht,
>
> I am currently working with Helmut Satzger from the High Performance
> Computing Group in Germany on an animation project in Cycles. We are
> attempting and hoping to do all the rendering on some of their high-end
> machines. However, we're currently getting consistent segmentation faults on
> each of the machines with anything later than Blender 2.62. Blender 2.61
> works fine but that's it. We're really hoping to use many of the newer
> Cycles features, though and so 2.61 is not a very good option.
>
> The specs of the machines are:
>
> 1. Sun-Fire X4600 with dual socket AMD Opteron 8-core
> 2. SGI Altix Ultraviolet systems with Intel Nehalem processors with 1040
> cores in total.
>
> I know that Cycles has not been heavily tested on this kind of hardware but
> is there anything we can do to start narrowing down the problem and try and
> get this working? It will render for a short while and then always
> segmentation faults; no matter what the file is really.
>
> I can try to provide any additional information if needed.
>
> Thanks!
>
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