Thanks, Jim

[Martin Weiss]

Just cutting through all the noise, I want to say thank you.

Oh, and if all your hard work has left you without friends...

...we can all befriend you. :biggrin:

 

[Jason Ing]

LOL.

Poor Jim.

It's lonely at the top.

 

[Justin O'Neill]

Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you! My mind is abuzz with all the endless possibilities. People keep calling me and I can barely carry on a coherent conversation due to lack of sleep and excitement.

 

[JanneJansson]

..careful you never know what Norwegians mean with "friends"

 

[Martin Weiss]

You'd have to ask a Norwegian, not me

Janne, how many Helmers do you need to render 1 second of 28k RC500?

 

[JanneJansson]

he he, too many I guess

 

[Martin Weiss]

But can a Helmer be used to process R3D footage - or does this work only on a Intel Mac?

 

[JanneJansson]

Yep, it works. Either I run a simulated mac (with 24 cpus) and do the processing there. When the REDline tool and SDK is for linux, I can easily run processing of any file at 5-10 times the fastest mac. (at about 1/3 price) To increase the speed, I just add more nodes - no limits If I add 1000 nodes I get a a processing speed of a mac with 4000 cpus

 

[Martin Weiss]

Wow!

Janne, maybe you could start a new thread explaining for some lesser technical people how to go about it. I would have no problems putting together a server as described on your website, but I would have absolutely no clue as to how to go about making it a simulated mac, or how to tell RedCine/RedAlert or RedWhatever to actually harness that processing power.