Well. Thanks. Just sharing stuff I have picked up from others and in my own...umm...experiments. I have found your contributions far more useful.
We have a pretty wide array of machines by necessity. Would be a real burden and very expensive to keep everything 100% current. Feels like a laboratory some days.
That is why when something like Sorenson, Composer or our SAN software is giving us problems facility wide I can be relatively sure it is not a configuration or install issue.
You are correct. The time has come for 64bit. Even though the Avid and FCP can't swing it yet, there are lots of pluses to making your systems 64bit.
Anything using multiprocessing like Adobe CS5 needs an environment where each processor can get a healthy amount of RAM. In an 8 core machine you should really be thinking about 24GB to 32GB. There will be a bigger upside to all this as applications get more multithreaded or multi-core capable.
CS5 applications like Premiere and After Effects require a 64bit OS.
Things are really starting to cook. Speeds inside newer computers are very impressive. Memory, storage, and the PCI bus are getting pretty damn fast. AND plentiful.
Heck, the z800 can take 192GB of super fast DDR3 RAM. Imagine being able to use it! 10Gb/sec "affordable" local storage is about a year away. Video cards are taking multiprocessing to incredible levels and will need computers with a lot of memory to do so.
Applications like Avid and FCP need to get with it along with certain storage manufacturers to harness this before others do.
Adobe seems to be on the stick. Others aren't far behind.
Chris MagidRTVF
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Job ter Burg (L2B) <Job_L2@terburg.com> wrote:
From: Job ter Burg (L2B) <Job_L2@terburg.com>
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Preferred Symphony platform
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 3:32 PM
"chris magid" (14-11-2010 19:53) :
> Perhaps you may find this helpful.
More than "perhaps", Chris. This is the second time that you have provided
hands-on real-life actual operational info to us. You're apparently in a
situation where you can compare the performance of these configs, and this
is exactly the type of info I was looking for.
Also, I still have your Vista rundown from two years ago (November 11, 2008)
in my "Keepers" folder (and here:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/message/61732), and shared it
with many others that were about to make the move to Vista. This posting is
going right next to that one.
Awesome. I owe you.
I guess the bottom line is that we need to move on to an actual 64-bit
application?
--
Job ter Burg
film editor - NL
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