PI Render Machine

[skimmilk5]

I'm planning on building a render machine, but I don't want to deal with downtime, so I wanted to use quite a few Raspberry Pi's (32 to be exact) as client machines and a low-power Intel Xeon as a host machine to do Autodesk Maya rendering through Backburner. I was planning on using two Norco 3U 16 bay cases.

[Weak1ings]

What is your question?  If you can make it work, it'll work.

Why not use the Quad-core Pi 2s though?

[Streetguru]

I'm planning on building a render machine, but I don't want to deal with downtime, so I wanted to use quite a few Raspberry Pi's (32 to be exact) as client machines and a low-power Intel Xeon as a

I dub it, the render bitch, but what's with the Rasberry pis? Just build a few of these if you want a cheap many core cluster

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZdpkMp

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ZdpkMp/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($134.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 Micro ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  ($50.15 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($31.45 @ SuperBiiz)

Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 750GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($34.99 @ Amazon)

Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card  ($23.80 @ SuperBiiz)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($39.10 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $314.48

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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