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burrokeet on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mac Pro gets half-assed “update”

Except that you would have to pipe giga/terabytes of data to/from the cloud - that is why lots of in house rendering and catalogue systems use Fibre Channel and similar technologies - one of the bottlenecks is I/O from the workstation

mahyarm on June 13, 2012 [–]

It wouldn't be the cloud, it would be local gigabit ethernet and thunderbolt interconnects.

burrokeet on June 13, 2012 | [–]

I was referring to using something like Amazon services for rendering

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