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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Resolve on PC

That's fun-tastic!
 
Nice move from BlackMagic.. But a little bit late after the last move of Adobe.. Not that I don't like it.. A week ago I would had jumped (higher) of joy.. I already have the mac version, so it will cost me nothing to use Resolve in Windows.. Actually it may even turn to be better that the future "Adobe CC software"..
Good times.. A week ago PC guys could not find any high end "affordable" CC software, now all of a sudden: 2 in a row.. What's next.. Smoke for PC..
 
MichaelP said:
Not only faster GPU's, but more slots on a PC.
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And unlike the Linux version, ProRes support, at least for ingest. The lack of ProRes on the Linux version is its single biggest problem. And in a television-centric facility today, that's a BIG problem.
 
Wow! Just sold my 12 core Mac Pro... was planning to get the thunderbolt Mac Pro. I've made up my mind now... back to PC for my workstations. I'm not going to waste my money purchasing a Cubix and slow GPU cards. It's so much easier to make the decision to move to Windows now with FCPX sucking so badly and Adobe stepping up their game.

I noticed that they said 16 GPU's per "system"... I take that to mean you can stick 16 GPU's in one computer. No need for infiniband? What workstation would be ideal? Perhaps I'll go with a Boxxtech.
 
So, with support for 16 GPUs...anybody have any idea when/if you hit a point of diminishing returns? I mean, we're talking supposition here, but maybe somebody has a thought. If you were solving for x, speaking strictly about playback, at what theoretical point would x GPUs equal a Red Rocket?
 
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Just checked the specs on the BOXX 8550 Extreme... 12 core 4.3 GHz system... $8266.00 but only has (4) PCI Express. Heck I wonder if this system could play full res r3d files realtime. My 12 core 2.66GHz can play "1/2 res. good" realtime.
 
I wonder if Davinci made a mistake when they said 16 GPU's on one system... perhaps they meant the same configuration as with Linux... four systems with four graphics card per system connected via infiniband.
 
Andrae Palmer said:
I wonder if Davinci made a mistake when they said 16 GPU's on one system... perhaps they meant the same configuration as with Linux... four systems with four graphics card per system connected via infiniband.
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No, they meant it. As they meant, that the price of Resolve now is the same, regardless of OS. If you want a Linux Resolve, all you have to buy is the panel. The software is included at no charge:-)
 
Andrae Palmer said:
I wonder if Davinci made a mistake when they said 16 GPU's on one system... perhaps they meant the same configuration as with Linux... four systems with four graphics card per system connected via infiniband.
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I think they mean that if you somehow manage to build a system with 16 GPUs in it, it is supported.

Basically - that they are not restricting the GPUs in any way and that in fact they have designed the software to take advantage of up to 16(!) GPUs?

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
www.gamepc.com

Not cheap, but they have a custom HPTX rackmounted 4U computer, with lots of HDD bays, nice SR-2 mobo with 7 pci 16x slots...
You can get it on there, and build your own based on their system.
 
Andrae Palmer said:
Just checked the specs on the BOXX 8550 Extreme... 12 core 4.3 GHz system... $8266.00 but only has (4) PCI Express. Heck I wonder if this system could play full res r3d files realtime. My 12 core 2.66GHz can play "1/2 res. good" realtime.
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For that price you can assemble/buy a 2P Xeon E7-8830 16 core system. That does full res R3D realtime very easily, I have tested it with CS5.5. I have a hunch it might even do Epic realtime. If not that then the 20-core Xeon E7-8870 for sure.

By the way, even a 4-core Core i7 2600 can do 1/2 res playback on CS5.5 on Windows.
 
Does anyone know if dual gpu cards (GTX 590) would (I guess "theoretically" since we don't know yet) work? If so you could pack a bunch of cards in and have double the gpu's per card.
 
M Most said:
And unlike the Linux version, ProRes support, at least for ingest. The lack of ProRes on the Linux version is its single biggest problem. And in a television-centric facility today, that's a BIG problem.
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That's true. I think this is a Linux issue. Still, I'm pretty stunned that Black Magic would throw in the Linux version for free, for customers who had paid for the $30K control surface. The thought of being able to throw tons of GPUs at it is pretty seductive, plus you still get to use the existing Mac version (maybe at an assistant station doing conforming). If you had a post house centered completely on, say, R3D or DPX or Avid DNxHD files, this could work very efficiently; they seem to do this pretty well at CO3.

I continue to be really impressed with how competitive Black Magic is at staying one step ahead of rival products. And the updated feature set in 8.1 is very cool as well.
 
Aaron McAdam said:
Does anyone know if dual gpu cards (GTX 590) would (I guess "theoretically" since we don't know yet) work? If so you could pack a bunch of cards in and have double the gpu's per card.
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I don't know how Resolve will respond to it, but to games GTX 590 is exactly the same as having two underclocked GTX 580s in SLI.
 
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