Morality

remus

A question for the collective SCF conciousness:

Would it be immoral to use the universities computing cluster, described as such:

A 160-node 64-bit Itanium cluster supplied by Bull.

lynx consists of 20 compute nodes, each having four dual-core Itanium 1.6GHz CPUs and 16GB of main memory. The compute nodes are connected by a Quadrics network.

lynx is running Bull Linux AS4 V5.1, a modified version of Red Hat Linux AS4.

There is approximately 10TB of disc area available for users.

to render a scene or 2 with luxrender?

I can almost taste the 256 GHZ of processing power.

Marian

Why would it be immoral?
If you are not making 3d porn with it, I say go for it.

david_h

If its concentual. . . ..

Are you forcing the computer against its will? Then yes. . .it's wrong.

dermotcoll

It would be immoral not to!!!!

I would get the knarliest model with a huge face count and let rip to see just how good the system is - then you'll know the level of output you can look forward to in the future!!

remus

Thats what i like to hear

Marian, it was a thinly veiled attempt to shoe horn my favourite subject of render farms in to a thread.

Jackson

... that would be an awesome render farm and yet with all that power SU would still only run at 1.6GHz. Where's a "head in hands" smiley when you need one?

I imagine that V-Ray would be close to running real-time 30fps photorealistic rendering on that bad boy..... droool.

remus

Its a linux box (albeit a big one) so quite limited in what software would run on it. I imagine lux should give me some options, though

solo

Imagine running Thea on it.... sweetness.

Thea runs on Linux.