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SYNK Technical Requirements

SYNK Technical Requirements

Table Of Contents

Overview

Simplified workflow

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Simplified technical dataflow

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Hardware specifications

  • Datastore

    • Mountletter: B:\

    • Protocol: smb

    • Minimum storage 40TB, preferable scalable to 100TB

  • Virtual Machines

    • SYNK - Syncing - TBD

      • Main VM used for data syncing.

      • OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS, Rocky Linux 8.10, Rocky Linux 9.5 or Windows10

      • ram: minimum 32GB

      • local-storage: 60GB

  • Workstations

    • Artist/Animator Workstations

      • CPU: AMD Threadripper, Intel i9 or Intel Xeon, minimum 16 cores, 3.0+ GHz

      • RAM: minimum 64GB recommended 128GB, DDR5-6000

      • GPU: minimum NVIDIA RTX 4060, preferable NVIDIA RTX 4080 or similar

      • Storage: 2TB NVMe SSD primary drive + 2TB HDD secondary

      • Network: preferable 10GbE network interfaces

      • OS: Microsoft Windows 10 or 11

    • Realtime Workstations

      • CPU: Intel i9 minimum 24 cores, base: 3.2+ GHz

        • Aim for excellent single-core performance for Unity Editor.

      • RAM: minimum 64GB recommended 128GB, DDR5-6000

      • GPU: minimum NVIDIA RTX 4070, preferable NVIDIA RTX 4090 or better.

        • Preferable over 16GB VRAM

      • Storage: 2TB NVMe SSD primary drive + 2TB SSD secondary

      • Network: preferable 10GbE network interfaces

      • OS: Microsoft Windows 10 or 11

    • Renderfarm

      • Farm

        • Thinkbox Deadline 10.4

        • Minimum of 2 nodes , preferable 8 nodeswhen using a compositing step ideally 16 nodes

        • Comparable with Artist / Animator Workstations.

      • Render Nodes:

        • CPU: Dual AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon processors, minimum 32 cores each

        • RAM: 64GB-256GB per node

        • GPU: Optional

        • Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD for OS/cache

        • Network: preferable 10GbE network interfaces

        • OS: Microsoft Windows 10