Currently the Fox Renderfarm deploys 2000 workstations and there will be more in future.
The hardware specification of each machine:
Processor:
Intel Xeon E5645 * 2, 24 cores with hyper-threading
I7 3770K, 4 physical cores, 8 cores with hyper-threading
RAM: 24GB-64GB (Intel Xeon E5645), 16GB (I7 3770K)
Local networking: 20Gbps InfiniBand
OS: Win 7
Internet connection:
1. 200Mbps internet access
2. Hardware firewall
A screenshot of "Windows Tasks Manager" of the rendering workstation:
