Re: Two points

On 12/2/24 9:19 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 20:19:41 -0500, -hh wrote:
 

... I can recall doing some 3D FEA work back in 2002 and the
best PC workstations we could get would hit the wall & crash at 4 days.

 Running what OS? Sounds like Windows rather than Linux or some other *nix.

TBH, I don't really remember many details anymore, as the project had very rapid growth (1 to ~60 staff in 40 days).  For the M&S, the first PCs were maxxed-out Xeon workstations from "I don't know/I don't care": I said we needed the best we had on site & they showed up..with people. Similar with imaging gear:  needed a better camera; it ran $100K and was delivered in 72hrs.  An insane level of carte blanch.

Similarly, for video, there's many different formats; I've not done much
4K or 6K yet (just got the camera gear) but Blackmagic's RAW benchmark
says to expect 4K BRAW 8:1 to render at ~600 fps w/Metal, which means
that an hour of p25 should take <3 minutes to render.  That's not even
long enough to make a good cup of coffee.

 And that’s certainly not a format you would use for final content delivery.

Of course it will...but you were talking about content *creation*,
not the subsequent *consumption* of the finished product: different performance needs.
-hh