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Hi,

I just finished my new system installation & configuration
it took me a 3 Days(with no sleep) to config a dual boot Linux CentOS & win 10 ) included with Fusion Studio 7.7.1 & 8 Beta .

The System:
Supermicro SuperWorkstation 7048GR-TR - 4U/Tower
2 x Twelve-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5-2690 v3 2.60GHz 30MB Cache (135W)
64GB PC4-17000 2133MHz DDR4 ECC Registered DIMM
LSI MegaRAID 9361-8i SAS 12Gb/s PCIe 3.0 8-Port Controller with 1GB Cache
TITAN -X 12GB
decklink 4k extreme 12g

DISK:
1 x SSD 512GB on SATA III 6GB for os system window 10 and Programes...
2 x SSD 512GB striped in [raid 0] use for DATA and Chace




i want to improve my performance should i add more
- 64gb memory that will give me 128gb
- more disks for cache 2 x 1TB ssd SAMSUNG EVO 850 striped in [raid 0]
- add a second TITAN-X

any advice that will help me to improve my performance!

Regards,
Simon

Assuming your projects fit in 1TB of space, your storage is fine. I've run Fusion on 16x SSD RAID 0 arrays, and it wasn't much better than running off just 3x array, so I'd leave that alone until you need to add capacity.

The second Titan won't do a thing. Fusion only uses one GPU 99.99% of the time. You have to have to be running an OpenGL render AND an OpenCL render concurrently for it to use the second GPU, and with so few OpenCL and OpenGL tools, that's actually very rare.

Doubling your memory, however, is a surefire win for anything other than transcoding. That would be my strong recommendation.

Hi Chad,

this is a new system it's just my starting point to see how i can grow from there .
i can see now why fusion needs a lot of memory and this is going to be my first upgrade.

thank you so much !

I wouldn't say fusion 'needs' a lot of memory, it works fine with 16gb (no, that's no a lot these days)
What it does do is take advantage of as much memory as you can stick in there, since it is full-frame cache based system.
I would say fusion 'wants' as much ram as it can get.

Hi Rony,
what is the hierarchy in fusion frame works?
memory
cpu
cuda
open cl
disk cache

still i don't understand why the time line is showing me 3-4 fps
when i press play in the first turn.
it looks like a massive calculate can you explain what do i need to do to make it work faster? or is this is a normal behave .

thanks,
simon

You could set up a cluster, or use more CPU's, but I'm not sure what the limit on the latter is.