Hi fellow ArchiCAD-Octane-ers,
As a follow up of this thread: viewtopic.php?f=56&t=56127
I thought it might interesting to discuss abtou what hardware would be optimal for us.
It seems to me that it is not so obvious to determine the optimal hardware when looking at the CPU.
What would be better CPU config for ArchiCAD-Octane user?
a dual Xeon versus a single i7?
i7 cores have higher frequency.
According to Paul "the plugin will extract all the geometry from ArchiCAD in a single thread, load that info into Octane in a single thread, but then Voxelize the data using multiple threads."
So, for that one thread an i7 core can be more interesting then two Xeons.
but xeon can have a dual cpu and many more threads for other tasks taht has to be done.
It would be nice to have sort of benchmark with loading (heavy) scene, 2d and 3d plan generating and loading scene into plugin, but that would be a hard one, right?
But we can make/use a test scene and compare with each other as users with different cpu's dual.
When we are talking about optimal hardware config it is different for slaves.
According to Paul "The slave is being sent the Octane NodeGraph - so yes, a lot of the hard work has already been done."
Maybe you also have thoughts about other hardware optimalisation... I just came up with thios CPU thing coz' it looks like a bottleneck to me.. we can upgrade GPU easy, but CPU is another story.
What about RAM? hdd/ssd? and other stuff.
Curious what you guys think...
the link to the other post (link above) .shows images of threads used while doing calculations.. might be interesting to read. You find one image here too.
Cheers,