Rent Render Farm/Cloud?

[illmonkey]

Hi!

I'll soon need some external processing power. Are there any good farms out there that supports Octane/C4d?

Is this what the Amazon AMI is for? I've never got to understand this at all. I remember some fuzz about that V2 (a great while ago) would have Octane Cloud, is that the new "network" feature? So I rent a IP number somewhere and put it in there?

Sorry if it's a sloppy question but I feel that I'm just getting dumber and dumber trying to comprehend this myself.

[glimpse]

hi, illmonkey =)

Wokstation on a cloud (OTOY's cloud) will be a service where You can run Your desktop apps from any device that has: screen, some basics inside that would be powerfull to open a browser & decent internet conection.

What You're going to get is a desktop like experience, then You can install whatever You want & do what You have to. As a baseline You get a cleint with GPU that will be about as powerfull as 670 (4Gb of RAM & almost the same speed).

As I understand version 2.0 allows You to export scenes (in ORBX format) - that is nesecarry to make a conection with the cloud - send Your scene over to be rendered. As v2 is already out, CLOUD is still ongoing project & probably soon OTOY will release some more info on that sooner rather than later.

For now (as far as I know) there's no way to buy a service like that (with multi GPUs), so You probably left with asking a friend, a coleague to help You out. Some Guys have pretty monstrous rigs & I'm sure they could help You (just a hint, as licence policy doesn't allow renting, delivering such service..but YOu still can ask for friendly help =)

[Seekerfinder]

I remember some fuzz about that V2 (a great while ago) would have Octane Cloud, is that the new "network" feature? So I rent a IP number somewhere and put it in there?

Hi illmonkey,
Adding to Glimpse's info, the network rendering feature (in addition to the cloud offering) allows you to use GPU's on other machines on your LAN - your local network of workstations. Unfortunately, it is currently limited to 12 GPU's, which is not much more than you could run a single machine (with additional power) but Otoy are working on the licensing for this.

Best,
Seeker

[illmonkey]

Thanks guys for the insight! I'm trying to stay updated and I hope that the service will be somewhat affordable.

[Goldorak]

Thanks guys for the insight! I'm trying to stay updated and I hope that the service will be somewhat affordable.

I think it will be. The cloud version is using the network rendering functionality publicly introduced in 2.0, but further optimized for 10GE+ if you're looking for unlimited node rendering power per render job. We'll have more info shortly and opportunities for wider beta testing as we approach a full commercial release. The cloud platform we're building, I think, is going to expand the Octane ecosystem much farther than people may release in the long term. It will do a lot more than just provide cheap and scalable rendering power, although that is low hanging fruit

The AMIs on AWS are really just targeting developers, not artists or end users . In contract, The system that we will be launching for Octane users will provide nearly one click access to the cloud service, at a more effective cost per render than doing it on your own on AWS with the AMIs.

[prodviz]

Sounds great Goldorak.

Will the cloud service be available in the UK?

cheers.

[Goldorak]

Sounds great Goldorak.

Will the cloud service be available in the UK?

cheers.

Yes.