Let's start with the obvious. You may be wondering "Why haven't I heard from Mediaworkstations.net in a while?" Well, COVID was disruptive, but we might say that the impact on hardware availability did not start to become really acute until late 2020. At first we were estimating this would continue for 6 months. Then it
Perhaps you read the earlier blog about our 128 core a-X2P "laptop". While it's smaller "64-core laptop" sibling is very portable, the a-X1P Portable Dual EPYC Workstation PC you'd really enjoy more on a hard surface anywhere you need to go. If you caught Tom's Hardware article on our a-X2P Dual EPYC Portable Workstation PC
Well, it's perhaps good to say that you could place it on your lap, but we think you'd prefer using our a-X2P Portable Dual EPYC Workstation PC on a hard surface any place you need server-level firepower. If you follow the computer hardware space, you may have seen the Tom's Hardware article on our
Laptop with 64 cores? TWO of the most powerful GPUs available? 256 GB of RAM? Available, and prudent to include a caveat - while you certainly can place it on your lap, we think you'd prefer using our a-XP Portable Threadripper Workstation PC on a hard surface, wherever you need to be. If you follow
Spring 2020 is here and … is this the new normal? While live action production is very quiet, many VFX and Animation professionals have been able to continue working. This has sometimes meant parlaying their skillset into other realms however, too - a case of necessity driving innovation. "I can't only work on films
In Houdini Software System Requirements And Benchmarks – Part I we focused first on Houdini performance with the built-in Mantra Renderer using different hardware combinations. Part II was Houdini Software System Requirements And Benchmarks – Cache Disk and RAM and today is Part III of our 3-part series, Houdini System Requirements And Benchmarks –
Christopher: First off, thank you for making time in your schedule for this interview. So to start -- was there a moment, was there a single thing, where ... the light went on for you about becoming a digital artist, a visual effects artist? And on that note, what do you call yourself? Colie:
128 Core Workstation, Anyone? if you haven't heard, AMD has taken the server class CPU game to a new level, or perhaps more accurately, into a new realm. With the second generation EPYC 7002 CPUs, AMD’s flagship EPYC 7742 offers 64 CPU cores per chip, compared to Intel’s scalable Xeon flagship Intel® Xeon® Platinum
My name is Stephen Alvarez, I’m a photographer. I’ve worked for National Geographic Magazine most of my career, and most recently, I founded a nonprofit called the Ancient Art Archive. I remember being very young, and someone putting a camera in my hand, and suddenly I went from being inarticulate to being able to say
Last week we shared Part I of III exploring Houdini Software System Requirements, we looked at how different hardware configurations performed rendering Flip, Grains and Pyro scenes with a focus on Houdini’s built-in render engine Mantra. Today we present Part II in the series, the role of cache disk and RAM in a Houdini
