This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: New Mac Pro

Monday, June 10, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: New Mac Pro

Still not enough throughput on Thunderbolt to drive GPUs.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@...> wrote:
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> 1- Expansion Chassis solution?
> http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresschassis.html
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> No new MacBook Pro? :(
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> On Jun 10, 2013, at 12:04 PM, electropura212 wrote:
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> > Did you see the side-by-side with the current Mac Pro? This sucker is
> > TINY...if anything you would be stacking the new Mac Pro on top of your
> > expansion chassis or drive array....or maybe even have it on your desk (no
> > word about fans). I don't think you'll be stacking anything on it.
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> > On Monday, June 10, 2013, Jeff Kreines @ Kinetta wrote:
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> >> What about the AMD GPUs vs. nVidia? Does AMD do Cuda? Will Resolve run on
> >> AMD? This might be an incredibly dumb move. Also, a stackable design would
> >> have been more elegant, so one could put a PCI chassis below the cylinder.
> >> Cylinders aren't the best shape for dealing with rectangular things like
> >> drives and PCI cards.
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> >> Cuteness trumps functionality.
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> >> Jeff Kreines
> >> Kinetta
> >> jeff@... <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jeff%40kinetta.com');>
> >> kinetta.com
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> >> On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Jeff Sengpiehl <jeff@...<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jeff%40chainsawedit.com');>>
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> >>> Fast but no slots. It's the blue and white g3 all over again.
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