so this is exciting we are finally going to be validating if our idea for the
rendering machine over there is going to work but first we need a long Ethernet
cable
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now um all right so one of the few
pieces of the puzzle still well there's a few pieces of the puzzle still missing
okay one of the pieces of the puzzle still missing is getting a 10 GB
Ethernet connection to that machine so we've swapped out to the super micro
board that doesn't have it on board but the good news is oh I just dropped one
okay well the good news is my x540s and
other 10 gbit cards are here now so
we're going to go ahead and get that puppy linked up then we have to actually
build the machine I've just had it in a test bench up till now
so and this this was the thinking behind
the carabiners in the
ceiling okay
so now in
theory we are 10
gbit sick all right we are good
so let's let's actually let's actually build this machine
finally finally okay so I thought that
this RPC
4224 was actually going to be one for to grow into but it looks like we need it
now so this is the last of my four U cases from Norco that they graciously
provided for our new server room and we are going to be using this one for the
rendering machine so there's all of our mounting
Hardwares there's our nice soft foam
that my cat would eat if he could get at it and he would try to swallow it and he
would then get it stuck in his stomach which he did again costing me another
$1,200 if he does it again I'm going to kill him that's twice in 4 months he's
eating foam and needed
surgery so there point is it cheaper to
just get a new cat it would have been cheaper to get two new cats the first
time now I could have had three new cats and like a pretty cool
lizard all right
but he's my baby and I love him that's
what I tell myself it's like gee why doesn't lonus have a Lambo with all that
YouTube money cuz he has the world's most expensive cat that's why
okay um I'm going to need a minute to clear some space here I
think um band machine
gun um
power supply now I could leave the 860i that I
have in there but then if I ever want to
actually put graphics cards in cuz I'm going to take those graphics cards out
if I ever wanted to put proper graphics cards in then I would have to replace it
with something else which is kind of a pain in the
butt so H you know what no I'm going to
stick with the 860 ey the odds of
throwing graphics cards in here are pretty
slim do you know how long it's been since I've seen a motherboard where I
actually have to pop the covers on the io plate off
myself like are you for
real YOLO man
oh that's really tight okay I need
pliers okay just doing a quick test fit here finding out where the devil all the
holes are so that one over there and this one
right here what okay so there's that
one there's that one there's that one
where's this
one do you need all of them well it's
optimal get away with two I think that's what I
do um this show is all about the uh right
way to do things
so so at least
three I guess we'll need a power supply at some
point okay then oh look at that there's fits
over at the front here it's perfect just like Christmas kind of a week Christmas a fan
header yeah your expectations are so
high how did you know that I wasn't going to do fan headers for Christmas
bonuses this year now my feelings are hurt they should be now that my feelings
are hurt maybe there will be no Christmas bonus did you ever think of that bet you'd rather have a fan header
than nothing no I think I'd rather nothing than fan headers just because
that's kind of insulting
duly noted Merry Christmas everyone here
poop oh you don't like poop oh you want poop
nothing I think everyone in the comments will agree with me that fan headers are
better than poop that doesn't even make sense at
least you could use poop for what
leaving on your boss's desk for giving youan bosses give you
poop I actually ordered a game with uh little turds and velcro helmets that you
wear that they stick to on Amazon that I
was thinking we'd play on Channel Super Fun so it occurs to me now I need a
graphics card I didn't really want to
put one in here but this motherboard has no onboard
graphics and you're sure you can't use a Titan so I'm thinking as I install the
power supply this is the one piece of Hardware in this machine that I would
really like to change um not because the
860 watt isn't enough for for what we're going to do and that may be the case in
the future if we find some kind of application that can take advantage of
GPU which is why I wanted a motherboard in the first place that would support
multiple gpus but the reason I would like to have a different power supply in
here is actually more to do with redundancy um but finding a a mini
redundant so that's what they're called a mini redundant power supply one in
this form factor of sufficient wattage for this system with a couple of high
power gpus actually not not easy um there was
a 600 watt there may be something higher than that feel free to leave a message
in the comments if you guys can can find something better than that but uh yeah
I'm pretty much stuck with a single
non-redundant power supply the good news is this is a very reliable power supply
and this machine won't actually be storing anything Mission critical data
goes onto another server gets ripped off of it and then transcoded over to
another server by this one it never actually actually touches the data so um
it should be fine it's just I would rather I would rather it was actually
redundant and it'll be on a UPS as well so the power supply would have to fail
to take it down even temporarily I guess it's all right all
right in theory this boots now any time
hey all right okay so here we are here's
our 72 CPU threads only half of which are
actual cores weak sauce I know and this my
friends is the reason for some of the
confusion around this particular system had a lot of people asking things like
why do you need so many CPU cores to which I replied nothing because
I wasn't really ready to talk about what the solution was yet the reason we need
so many CPU corses we're going to be using it for transcoding and then doing
the final outputs of our videos to make
our videos easier to work on on our workstations without leg as we're
scrubbing through the timeline and to make our exports more seamless of the
finished videos and hopefully faster question number two
lonus what aren't you running Linux on a
server it's a server to which my reply
is well gee I guess if you'd maybe asked
what software we were using I might have been able to reply that the software
we're using doesn't run on Linux and in
fact there isn't a Linux version so
we're going to be using soron squeeze server and how this works is pretty much
it's that's not server this isn't server well where's server we are going going
to be using Sorenson squeeze server and
the way that works is we pretty much have a watch folder that we drop files
into and it transcodes them for us so we
uh had to do a fair bit of experimentation by we I mean Ed who's
behind the camera had to do a fair bit of experimentation to find out exactly
how much we could get out of our 36 CPU
cores and if we did would it even do anything positive for our workflow so
the exact workflow is not 100% finalized
yet but what we do know is that if we use ENC code and watch folders and we
set ourselves up a watch folder and a destination when we ingest footage off
of our cards which will be over Thunderbolt so we'll actually be able to
ingest very quickly even off multiple cards automatically our watch folder is
going to take those and apply a particular preset to them so we can take
a big whack of footage which we've actually got on the local disc here and
then we are going to copy here and this
will do two things so number one it will
take the footage off of our SD cards which we would cut paste instead of copy
pasting and then number two now that it's safely on our storage array it will
take these and transcode them to a different easier to work with format and
then boot them out somewhere else so in this case we are using another local
folder which oops I just paused that which may end up being a bottleneck but
we'll we'll do a quick experiment before this video is over to find out if our 10
GB network is going to benefit us here what we're waiting for now as the files
copy is we've set up our watch folder to monitor itself every 1 minute and then
start processing so we can have a look at our current jobs nothing has happened
yet but we'll know soon enough because our CPU is going to start going bananas
here oh here we go here we go I think something's happening
5% 7% CPU let's see if the uh the job is
showing up yep there we go so you can see it's taking all these clips and
importing them then transcoding them then it does something else and there's
a lot of there's a lot of waiting involved but uh our CPU usage should
start to slowly ramp up as more of them
get past the importing stage and make it to the encoding stage excuse me
transcoding which I guess is also encoding
76 oh it's going up to 85% oh now it's
working well what the Sam heck I guess
it just takes a while to get all fired up or something look at it go we're
actually getting a fairly reasonable turbo frequency out of this whole
process like 2.7 plus GHz right now so
there's actually a couple of different views we can get of this it looks like
cpu0 is getting most of the love but we can actually change it to look at the
two different num noes and you can see that CPU Z's utilization is higher but
it's not that much uh well it is quite a
bit higher so it is significantly higher than uh than node one and then we can
also change the graph to overall utilization so you can see as it
climbs really high CPU one kind of catches up to zero
but it is it is sign significantly
lower none of these jobs are finished they're all at the importing or
transcoding stage still he's very interesting okay so
we're only seeing like Max highest peak 70% CPU utilization and we realized that
the last time we validated any of this it was actually in this server with one
of the processors plugged into the motherboard
so maybe the advantage that this one has
has over the one we're using now is much much faster storage so if we can connect
to this one over the network then we should be able to leverage that storage
in theory so let's fire up the 24s SD server and see if uh using that as a
Target helps 1 Gigabyte per second over the
network and what's interesting about being able to see network utilization
here is that unlike local dis utilization
uh we we know where the hard cap is and
it gives us a really clear idea of how much CPU utilization corresponds to how
much Network utilization you can see network is actually not even changing in
spite of the fact that CPU's gone from 13 to
45% but what remains to be seen is whether our CPU usage will go higher
than it was able to before with less of a storage bottleneck so like so many of
our videos this one ends up actually raising more questions then it answers
but hopefully we were at least able to answer the question of why we wanted
such a high-powered server it's to enable a smoother workflow when multiple
people are hitting the files at the same time and uh in order to have an easy
quick way to replicate our data as soon as we ingest it onto our server so we
can avoid the current workflow which is
just leave it on the SD card just in case cuz there's only one copy on the
server this way we'll actually have a copy on on one server and a copy on
another one as soon as we've ingested the footage and it has gone through this
transcoding process okay so we're back at
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