GPGPU on Amazon

Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:16 pm

I thought this was interesting: anyone want to try rendering in the cloud?
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new- ... tance.html

They say you can run a CUDA-enabled application on a server with two Tesla M2050s, for a couple of bucks per hour.

I guess that the main benefit would be for ultra-complex models that need the 3GB VRAM?

I get enough performance from my GTX 470 for what I need right now.

tim

Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:27 pm

I saw this too, but wasn't sure how much this would really help with Octane. I doubt it would be very useful when it comes to the interactive mode of Octane where you are setting up the scene and textures and lighting, etc. However, once you have an animation set up correctly it could probably run off your animation pretty well. Seems like it would only be helpful for those unattended type of tasks with Octane.

Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:24 pm

I agree: you'd still want your own machine. But once you have a big set of frames to generate, perhaps it would be helpful. Because I'm not usually doing movies, I'm happy setting things up frame by frame in Octane. Having to re-export the model for every frame is not really attractive for me because of the size of my models (hundreds of megabytes).

tim