In the previous post I ran FFmpeg and Handbrake on the 6 core CPU of my workstation and got a good but still modest 2.5x speedup of the video encoding task compared to running the same operation on notebook. I would have expected at least a 5x speedup and I’m still puzzled why I didn’t … Continue reading Workstation Power at Home – Part 3 – FFmpeg on the GPU
This is part 2 in my article series on using a Xeon based 6 core 12 thread workstation at home to offload CPU intensive tasks from my notebook to a more powerful and fast server. At the end of the introduction I had an example of how my picture fix, rotate compression tool runs 5 … Continue reading Workstation Power at Home – Part 2 – FFmpeg
It was 2004 when I bought my last workstation for use at home, a Siemens Fujitsu Pentium 4 tower PC. After that I shifted to notebooks as they became cheap and powerful enough to do almost everything with them I wanted to do. Even my 5 year old refurbished Thinkpad X250 is an excellent machine … Continue reading Workstation Power At Home – Part 1