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To: vincent bilotta who wrote (1033)	4/14/1997 6:53:00 PM
From: John M. Zulauf	of 14451

Bilotta, you're a nightmare on wheels! If you've heard or read anything that claims the full Power Animator will be on NT (ever), you know more than I do (and should read your non-disclosure-agreements better). Are you sure though that you're not confusing the PA renderer on NT, PA application on AIX press releases? > R10K Indigo2 is 95% as fast as an Octane, at half the price. The Indigo2 R1000 Solid Impact is a good value (and SGI is still selling a bunch of them)... but don't compare a I2 Solid v. a Oct MXI for cost. Also note that the Raytrace performance difference is far greater (it's 30% better) -- and both are in line with the relative SPEC performance, when you consider that the PA RayTracer is more FP intensive. Here's your data in a more usable form, I took the data you cited and formatted in terms of dollars per frames per hour. Note that the O2's yield good value in terms of both cost per seat and render time for Raycast, the I2 giving the best value for Raycasting. For raytracing the story is quite different and the excellent floating point performance of the R10 in the Octane shines through. (note that these prices are guesstimates from postings on the web and reflect approximate list prices) According to PC magazine, some resellers are discounting ~20% at least on the O2's. Approx $/frames-per-hour MB List price Raycast Raytrace O2 r5000 180sc 10500 10427 23003 128 O2 r10000 150 16000 10204 17429 128 O2 r10000 175 18000 9380 15234 128 I2 r10k 195 22000 8054 7389 128 Octane SI 195 28000 9714 6368 128 O200 195 (est) 15000 5204 3411 64 O200x2 195(est) 24000 4163 1364 128 It's not on the list but the a single processor O200 spec's about the same as an Octane (if not a wee bit faster) so I estimated it as the O200's pricing (noting of course that without X you don't need as much memory) with the Octane's performance. So for pure render serving it's not either the I2 or the Octane you want, but an O200. It will be interesting this fall when NT results get added to this mix. > will A/W honor all those sales promises of... what kind of question is THAT! A\|W is not stupid enough to p*ss off it's entire client base. Of COURSE A\|W is going to honor it's upgrade committents. "Dave, why don't take a stress pill and we'll talk it over." -- HAL

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