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Pixar is paying a massive premium; they probably are using an order of magnitude or two more CPUs than they would if they could use GPUs. Using a hundred CPUs
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
Pixar is paying a massive premium; they probably are using an order of magnitude or two more CPUs than they would if they could use GPUs. Using a hundred CPUs in place of a single H100 is a greater-than-h100 style premium.
- imjonse 2y agoWould Pixar's existing software run on GPUs without much work?
- jsheard 2y agoIt does already, at least on Nvidia GPUs: https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/pages/viewpage.action?mobileBypass=true&spaceKey=REN24&title=XPU https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/pages/viewpage.action?mobileBypas... They currently only use the GPU mode for quick iteration on relatively small slices of data though, and then switch back to CPU mode for the big renders.