GPU Rendering Server for Blender/Unity/Unreal

[RafaWasHere]

I have been tasked at work to price-out/build a server. I have built a pc but have never had to deal with building a server, specially a rendering sever.

Goal: Build a server people from out team can remote into and render their Blender/Unity projects.

 

We want to start of small but want to be able to expand/upgrade in the future. We do currently have a server room and rack. 

We have been using a workstation (16GB ram, 2TB SSD, 2 Titan RTX) we are willing to move these parts over.

 

Budget range (estimate) $5-10K USD

 

Any help is appreciated thank you for your time.

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much and what voltage of power do you have to work with? Power becomds limiting pretty quickly.

 

 

How much vram do you need?

 

Id probalby get a used 8 gpu 4u server like this.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro-SYS-4028GR-TR2-Server-Up-to-10x-GPU-Incl-4x-PSU-2x-Xeon-Processors/324068410649?hash=item4b73fb8519:g:onkAAOSwgo9dyjUg

 

Then just keep adding titran rtx's or other gpus.

[RafaWasHere]

Our server room has both 120v and 240v. 500mb/500mb symmetric fiber (I don't know if that matters)

To be honest I am not too sure how much VRAM we need but I know right now it's taking quite some time (2-3 Days) to render stuff (2K @ 60FPS)

 

Long story short the workstation kept over heating and not designed for more GPUs and instead of buying more Workstations I proposed we move to a server that can hold more GPUs and teams can remote into it but I also volunteered myself, yikes!

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 hours ago, RafaWasHere said:

Our server room has both 120v and 240v. 500mb/500mb symmetric fiber (I don't know if that matters)

To be honest I am not too sure how much VRAM we need but I know right now it's taking quite some time (2-3 Days) to render stuff (2K @ 60FPS)

 

Long story short the workstation kept over heating and not designed for more GPUs and instead of buying more Workstations I proposed we move to a server that can hold more GPUs and teams can remote into it but I also volunteered myself, yikes!

 

How many amps? Those systems can pull a lot of power, and put a lot of heat into the room, so make sure the room can handle it.