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Re: all of this rendering talk

In engineering departments, managers don't give a shit about the hardware platform, nor do users. Whatever the software vendor recommends is what you buy. When the software costs $80,000 per seat, you don't give a shit which computer or OS you need to buy in order to run it. I don't know what it's like in the graphics business, but that's how it is in engineering. The computer is by far the least expensive item in the cubicle, after the employee and the application software.

Darth Wong wrote:Re: all of this rendering talk

In engineering departments, managers don't give a shit about the hardware platform, nor do users. Whatever the software vendor recommends is what you buy. When the software costs $80,000 per seat, you don't give a shit which computer or OS you need to buy in order to run it. I don't know what it's like in the graphics business, but that's how it is in engineering. The computer is by far the least expensive item in the cubicle, after the employee and the application software.

That is really a totally different thing since the sort of render farms we are talking about are in situations where the hardware is the major cost with the rendering software being a cross platform, fixed overhead cost.

I'm not really sure what engineering design software is as expensive as $80k though; when you have an engineer doing CAD, the engineer himself is far more expensive then the platform or the software which means they are fairly incidental. Granted I know of some highly expensive speciality software, but what sort of engineering software have you used that cost $80k per seat?