Product Key

[Peter Milner]

Just moving across to a new Computer.

Where do I find my Accurender product key?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I don't think I save it in an unencrypted form anywhere.  If you don't have the original email with the key you'll need to have someone at McNeel look it up.  Let me know.

[Peter Milner]

McNeel's European technical support have sent it to me.

Now to start testing my new 12 core machine.

[George Ioannidis]

Holy mother! Can you provide some detailed specifications - cost, Peter? Thanks.

[Peter Milner]

It's a Dell Precision T7500 with dual 6 core Xeons running at 3.05 GHz and 24Gb RAM.

It was a custom built machine they had in stock reduced from about £7000 to £2900.

[George Ioannidis]

Wow! Looks like you've got a real bargain!

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Ok guys, let's all submit jobs to Peter now! :)

[Peter Milner]

I've just managed to turn hyperthreading on, so I now get 24 little graphs in the task manager window.

So far it looks to be at least 3 times faster than my old 8 core.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

It would be interesting to measure with and without hyperthreading (only do this if it's not too much of a pain in the neck.)  I do create two threads per physical core now.

[Peter Milner]

As a rough indication, a recent render on the old machine managed 248 passes over a weekend (64 hours).

On the new machine without hyperthreading after half an hour I estimated around 650 passes could be achieved over the same time period.

With hyperthreading enabled that estimate rose to around 800.

If I get a quiet moment I'll try a more precise comparison with a test render.