I have done over the weekend some fun test about mantra and i wanted to know how far i can go with mantra. so i set a scene up and the resolution went to 100k x 100k and i pressed render.
after 2 days rendering i had a .pic file with a size of 44.3GB :-)

so now my problem comes when i open the image viewer i see only black. whats the best way to look a xxxxl image ?
i know this resolution isn't common but mantra surprised me with a file and i want to open it :-)

first of all i think we should wait till siggraph and wait for the sesi announcement they will give :-)

when you have seen the ari danesh first steps webinars you would have see a houdini 12.5 program in his program folder. :-)
i think there will be some news about it.

or if you have seen on facebook the new icon: http://www.facebook.com/Houdini3D [facebook.com]
and the note on fxguide:
http://fxguide.com/featured/siggraph-things-to-watch-out-for/ [fxguide.com]
i cant wait to see the funky news…. :-)

600 hours rendering time on a i7 2600k… thats a long wait :-)
but it looks nice :-)

there are some tips on odforce or look the tutorials on sidefx:


http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1412&Itemid=344 [sidefx.com]

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2189&Itemid=361 [sidefx.com]


how is the light shadow setup? did you use Ray-Traced or Depth Map?
i always try to cut the render time under 20min per Frame (8 threat's) mostly it works.

hi,

the new intel cpu's with the 2011 socket has got a limit of 64gb ram.
the current usd prices i don't know but it should be under 3000$ inclusive 64gb ram.

i havent tried it at the moment, but i know that microsoft has released remoteFX that can split the GPU to the vm's. there are some videos that shows a cad running under a vm or even a game :-)

more information under:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoteFX [en.wikipedia.org]

under linux there is spice but i also don't know the current state what it can do and what can't be done. the virtualmachine is the kvm.

Links:
http://www.spice-space.org/ [spice-space.org]
kvm managment soltution:
http://www.ovirt.org/ [ovirt.org]

if you have got the hardware try it out.

If you have to much of troubles to get your data in to maya you can try SOup:
http://www.soup-dev.com/ [soup-dev.com]

Video Tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfGZuZsD4RE [youtube.com]

It looks like beta is out for the studios…

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=77&t=1014302 [forums.cgsociety.org]