On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 17:32 +0000, Chris Higgins wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:28:40 +0000
> Frank Murphy <frankly3d.ilug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why would anyone who isn't a business be looking at
> building a render farm in hardware -
A hobby
> the
> "rackmount" variants tend to be lots more expensive
> than the desktop ones..
>> The virtual cluster route will still probably work out
> cheaper as you can dynamically scale the size to match
> the workload and deadlines.
No deadlines, just fun and enjoyment.
But, will take a look at these blade servers.
Frank
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