{"id":214,"date":"2016-06-02T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-06-02T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:08:24","slug":"new-rendering-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/02\/new-rendering-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"System upgrades!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AK_newCPU\"<\/p>\n

(Benchmarks from Cinebench R15)<\/p>\n

Compiling code or\u00a0shaders and\u00a0building lighting\u00a0always takes up a long time. While for a project like AK, it’s not that bad\u00a0having\u00a0to wait\u00a0a minute or two\u00a0every couple of minutes when tweaking\u00a0shaders\u00a0but having to\u00a0rebuild the lighting at the production spec is a huge pain. Thanks to some friends in the High Performance Computing space(read: super computers), we’ve managed to acquire a used chip which would nicely upgrade the primary machine we use for development (which is the\u00a0same one we plan on doing the final output rendering on).<\/p>\n

The new chip cuts our wait times down to about 1\/3 the time it did on the Intel 5820k we were using before. That means the time we waste waiting for builds has been down down dramatically.<\/p>\n

To improve our lighting build times even more, we’ve also managed to get the Unreal Engine 4 Swarm working across a couple of machines. If things work out the way we hope it will, we’ll be able to get the swarm running on the render farm we have here at our office. It’ll be nice to be able to rebuild production spec lighting at preview speeds.<\/p>\n

Why is this important? Less down time means more time for us to work on stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Benchmarks from Cinebench R15) Compiling code or\u00a0shaders and\u00a0building lighting\u00a0always takes up a long time. While for a project like AK, it’s not that bad\u00a0having\u00a0to wait\u00a0a minute or two\u00a0every couple of minutes when tweaking\u00a0shaders\u00a0but having to\u00a0rebuild the lighting at the production spec is a huge pain. Thanks to some friends in the High Performance Computing space(read: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nec3-3s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abyssianknights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}