Redcine + 8 Cores

[Tonaci Tran]

To the REDCINE coding team,
Now that apple has released an 8 core monster..does this mean you have to put more work into coding REDCINE to effectively take advantage of all 8 cores?
Have you ordered your 8 core monster yet? hehe

[Chris Kenny]

Processing footage is something that should scale pretty easily to an arbitrarily large number of cores. Have eight cores? Just process eight frames at once.

However, we know REDCINE can also leverage the GPU. That makes things a bit more complex. Maybe you'd get more bang for you buck with a quad core machine that had a faster graphics card?

[Tom Lowe]

Are these 8-core machines for real? How far off are PCs from 8-core? I saw in the latest Dell catalog that top-end XPS systems are shipping with quad-cores right now.

[Chris Kenny]

Are these 8-core machines for real? How far off are PCs from 8-core? I saw in the latest Dell catalog that top-end XPS systems are shipping with quad-cores right now.

Right, but you can have two quad core processors, for a total of eight cores.

[Jaime Vallés]

Are these 8-core machines for real?

They sure are:

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

I'm going to wait as long as absolutely possible before buying a system to edit RED footage. My Rev. A Dual 2GHz G5 is still going strong (when dealing with SD footage...) :meh:

[Tom Lowe]

They sure are:

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

I'm going to wait as long as absolutely possible before buying a system to edit RED footage. My Rev. A Dual 2GHz G5 is still going strong (when dealing with SD footage...) :meh:

This is very wise, and I think everyone here is beginning to understand this. Computers are improving so quickly these days that if you buy a top-end machine in the Spring, by late Summer you will be reading the latest catalogs and realizing your machine is already severely outdated.

I bought a kick-ass system last June, and by Oct/Nov the same chip could be had in Dell's bargain basement PCs for 1/3 of what I paid. I'd say get your system up and running no sooner than about a month before you are ready to use it for RED work. And do lots of homework about what is coming out.

[Steve Freebairn]

8 cores are new to macs, but not to PCs. You've actually been able to get an 8 core or more system in a PC for several months now. Mac is offering a sweet system, but they aren't the first with 8 cores, they're actually close to last.

[Steve Freebairn]

I'd be really interested in seeing what a quad core PC with 2 8800GTXs could do compared to the 8 core systems out there. Those 8800s are incredible.

[Chris Kenny]

8 cores are new to macs, but not to PCs. You've actually been able to get an 8 core or more system in a PC for several months now. Mac is offering a sweet system, but they aren't the first with 8 cores, they're actually close to last.

Apple seems to have been holding out for the 3 GHz quad core chips. (Which Dell isn't offering yet, though they probably will be fairly soon.)

[Robert Sanders]

I'd be really interested in seeing what a quad core PC with 2 8800GTXs could do compared to the 8 core systems out there. Those 8800s are incredible.

Why do you need two?