Well, Pixar would be using these as workstations, not rendering nodes, right?
When my friend worked at a pre-press facility for a few years, their standard practice was to buy everyone doing graphics work machines with the RAM maxxed out, or nearly so. It was just too much hassle to go around and upgrade them later, and nobody complained about having too little but nearly everyone complained about not having enough.
Sometimes, too much is a good thing (Score:5, Informative)
Sixteen grand for a machine like this is still dirt cheap for a high end animation studio like Pixar or Ghibli.
Re:Sometimes, too much is a good thing (Score:1)
A high end animation studio involves rooms and rooms full of racks and racks of high performance CPUs ( not GPUs , mind you ).
I took a tour of one of Pixar's render farms and it was almost 15000 square feet of AMD servers.
You're not getting that for 16 grand, even if it is AMD stuff.
Workstations (Score:1)
Well, Pixar would be using these as workstations, not rendering nodes, right?
When my friend worked at a pre-press facility for a few years, their standard practice was to buy everyone doing graphics work machines with the RAM maxxed out, or nearly so. It was just too much hassle to go around and upgrade them later, and nobody complained about having too little but nearly everyone complained about not having enough.