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Rendering Farm 1U nodes

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Andrew Paul

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Hi, we would like to build custom 1U render drones with the most efficient CPU's/ coolers which can fit in a 1U case to be installed in our server room. Anyone has any experience with custom builds ? I was researching EPYC builds with a dynatron a34 cooler and a dual CPU EPYC mainboard.. I still need to figure out best CPUs for price\performance. We would be using them to render Maya\Nuke\Houdini\Clarisse with CPU based renderers for now. I would appreciate any help. Thanks
 
Alex Glawion

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I used to help a Studio build a Renderfarm based on 4U Servers that each had 8x 1U height / HalfWidth Nodes. Each node then had Dual CPU. So there were 16 CPUs in 4U.

Back then I used Supermicro Servers with Xeons, but I am sure they also have a similar setup for Epyc CPUs.

Here's what they have: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/fattwin?pro=cpu=2&nodes=8

If 8 Nodes with two CPUs each is too much, they also have 4 or 2 nodes in 2U, 1U respectively.
 
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I used to help a Studio build a Renderfarm based on 4U Servers that each had 8x 1U height / HalfWidth Nodes. Each node then had Dual CPU. So there were 16 CPUs in 4U.

Back then I used Supermicro Servers with Xeons, but I am sure they also have a similar setup for Epyc CPUs.

Here's what they have: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/fattwin?pro=cpu=2&nodes=8

If 8 Nodes with two CPUs each is too much, they also have 4 or 2 nodes in 2U, 1U respectively.
Hey Alex :) Nice atm we have 2x 2U 4nodes with dual 10 core Xeon CPU's from super micro but I would like to see if a custom build would be more cost effective to add/replace the old render drones..
 
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