High Performance Computer for GH

by Carlos B.M.

Jun 30, 2015

Hi all

I'm an architect working profesionally with parametric design since many years, and I'm about to renovate my workstation Laptop:  24GB/RAM - Intel core i7 2720 - 2.20 Ghz /Nvidia GeforceGTX 460M. I allready read David Rutten post talking about the topic.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/hardware-requirements-and...

but I would like to ask recomendations to the grasshopper community because I was thinking on investing around 6000€. For this price I would like to know what do you think I could fit in a new computer (not laptop) and where should I invest the most? Processor, Ram, Graphic card?

Any recomendations would be wellcome.

Carlos B.M. 

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    Tudor Cosmatu

    U should be able to assemble a workstation for less then 6000 based on this...

    in terms of video cards i suggest u look into titan x (or even the dual GPU titan z). it's a beast and works great with gpu based render engines - more info here as well: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-titan-x

    as for the CPU i suggest a Xeon 12-core - very stable and also good for CPU based render engines (24 threads)

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      Carlos B.M.

       I was working with some panelizations for Z.H.A. buildings when I was in NEWTECNIC (London) and I had to use special definitions for backing one by one cladding components, but I would like to visualize all components at once to speed up the process for redefining structures, and components. That's not easy when you have more than 30.000 cladding panels and you want to visualize them in real time, and run a sloar analysis in "Diva" or "LadyBug". That's why  I'm wondering if 32 GB of ram / i7 3GHz, or Xeon 12 cores....  would be enough? (regarding to what Tudor and Remy said)

      The video is just an example with an hipotetic shell  I just developed, to show of the workflow in a simplyfied maner. (But the shells I was working with were several times bigger)

      http://youtu.be/mhzWLduTvTU

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        Kim hauer

        I would hold off on spending large amounts of money on new computer systems, Until Rhino can demonstrate it can function properly without causing a total white screen, while doing calculations using Grasshopper.

        See my post: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/differential-growth-in-cu...

        There are a number of computer programs that use 100% of your cores on start up which means they are ready to do serious work. I don't see that readiness when I open Rhino.

        Maybe its time to do some serious comparisons, on a standard project, where users can send back their feedback, such as Total Calculation Time/CPU/Cores/Ram/Video

        I believe this would create an environment, which would help users make better buying decisions :)

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