{"id":4370,"date":"2015-02-05T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:50:22","slug":"nvidia-vca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2015\/02\/05\/nvidia-vca\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia VCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oooh, the end of rendering is here!  Again.  Yours for a mere $50,000 \/ \u00a332,000 + tax, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/visual-computing-appliance.html\">Visual Computing Appliance (VCA)<\/a> from Nvidia.  8 of Nvidia&#8217;s supercharged graphics cards are at your command, along with 256 GB of fast memory and oodles of other drool-inducing components.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/nv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/nv.jpg\" alt=\"nv\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s not an impossible option for a 25 business &#8216;incubator unit&#8217; of creative digital businesses.  Everyone would chip in $2,000, via a quarterly $250 levy on their office rental for two years, then time-share the unit over a network.  It is amazingly fast, after all, so it&#8217;s not as though Sally&#8217;s &#8216;formerly nine hour render&#8217; is going to block Bob&#8217;s &#8216;formerly six hour render&#8217; if they can render in minutes instead.<\/p>\n<p>I also wonder how easy it would be to DIY something similar, and at far less cost, with eight cheap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=4356\">Nvidia GeForce GTX 960<\/a> cards and a big empty case, if one was familiar with building PCs.  Actually, such a chassis\/case may not be that hard to find, as I guess the Bitcoin miners have some similar kit like that lying around, since that sort of thing is what they use to &#8216;mine&#8217; the coins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oooh, the end of rendering is here! Again. Yours for a mere $50,000 \/ \u00a332,000 + tax, the new Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) from Nvidia. 8 of Nvidia&#8217;s supercharged graphics cards are at your command, along with 256 GB of fast memory and oodles of other drool-inducing components. I guess it&#8217;s not an impossible option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-renders","category-spotted-in-the-news","category-the-animation-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}