We did it.
We built our own setup to launch nodes over there and send them scenes
and textures to render and write back the images to our file server.
It's good, but expensive. You don't send any type of jobs either.
We did it for linux and Arnold only. We use it for emergency only, and
it's been a while since we had to use it. We almost had to use it
recently, but then we realized the scene used a custom shader that
wasn't available on linux so we had to cancel the idea.
It required a considerable amount of time to setup. Many problems came
up. We were glad we had our own render farm management software since we
could add some custom code to it to account for those machines.
All in all, it's expensive (compared to owning your machines) and
complicated to setup. But it can save your ass... I mean render your
ass, as long as it's compressed. :)
On 31/07/2012 15:09, Richard Bensley wrote:
Is nobody looking at ec2 nodes? Ec2 is designed for temporary burst
computing. You just need a staging server to handle and deploy assets
(NFS shares would do).
I don't know how to do this with Windows only Linux. You talk to the
AWS api to fire up nodes as and when you want them.
Rich
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