Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Aug 2005 13:41 UTC
ExtremeTech explains how to build a rendering farm out of old computers. "At its core, a render farm is pretty simple: Seven or so machines on a network, a network-accessible storage location, a rendering app, and a queue manager. Putting it all together should be equally simple, right?"
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2005-07-06
Well, UK power is somewhere around £.15 per unit (http://www.uswitch.com/energy/Popups/pop_SwitchDetails.asp?popup=tr...), so I guess it would just be:
Power (150W?) * Hours (24?) * Days (30? 90?) * Price (0.15?) * Machines (15?)
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1000
Making (150*24*90*0.15*15) / 1000 = £729 per quarter for 15 machines on all the time.
Unless I've done something stupid of course, which is always likely.