What is the difference between render farms and cloud rendering

Traditional render farms and cloud rendering share a huge cluster and a strong hardware infrastructure. They may seem the same, but they are different to the user. This is because traditional rendering only supports offline, while cloud rendering supports online.

Cloud rendering is more suitable for the development of human trends, and can be more convenient for producers to use and meet their realistic needs.

First of all, Render Cloud is a leading graphics cloud cluster rendering service platform in China, which is well-known through top graphics processing technology and ultra-large-scale cluster rendering services, mainly helping the creative design industry to improve the efficiency of work rendering and reduce the cost of output.

toRendered cloud render farmFor example, cloud rendering has a number of advantages:

1. Large-scale rendering can be carried out anytime and anywhere

Producers can render files no longer limited by time and location, and only need to submit rendering project files through the client or FTP independently developed by Render Cloud, and there will be a huge high-performance rendering cluster for rendering, saving the time of waiting for rendering and improving work efficiency.

2. Keep improving the rendering equipment

The rendering machine is currently the highest configuration of the render farm, with 500 nodes, and can be dynamically expanded to 2,000. At the same time, as a brand of cloud rendering, it also provides producers with ultra-large file storage space, a professional technical team** to solve problems in real time and a strong data security guarantee mechanism to ensure the efficiency and security of users.

3. Real-time grasp of rendering progress in the cloud

When using cloud rendering, you can understand the rendering progress in real time through the client, control the completion of the rendering, and fully and reasonably arrange your working time, which is beyond the reach of traditional rendering.

Cloud rendering is when you send your work over the network to a cluster of supercomputers in a distant country, and they can render it for you and send it back to your computer.

A render farm is the equivalent of a supercomputer that can also do the rendering work. Now some cloud rendering farms, in fact, use cloud rendering technology, if you don't understand, you can take a look at the working principle of Longxuan cloud rendering farm, they are using cloud rendering technology.

There used to be a difference, but now there is basically no difference. Cloud rendering is a render farm.

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What is the difference between cloud rendering and traditional render farms?

In this regard, there is no difference between traditional rendering farms and cloud rendering, both of which are designed to get rendered images in a shorter time, and their basis is the computing power of the computer, which is actually the same as that of Internet cafes, because farms and Internet cafes rent out machines to customers to collect money, but the added value of farms is higher than that of Internet cafes to a certain extent.

1. Convenience.

The biggest difference between traditional render farms and cloud rendering is in convenience, both of which are commercial render farms, and traditional render farms are mostly based locally or in the same city.

Cloud rendering is more about a variety of automation, you only need to have a client of the cloud rendering provider, this client can parse the assets in the scene and upload the rendering to the cloud, after the rendering is completed, this client will automatically sequence to the local **.

There are also some cloud rendering technologies that provide optimizations that can embed their cloud rendering client into the production company's process, automating the submission of tasks with one click, ** sequences and passing them on to the next process of the production staff.

2. Cost-effective.

The biggest difference between the rendering farm built by traditional companies and the cloud rendering platform is the cost performance, because the rendering farm built by the company itself not only has the hardware costs such as computer room, machine, storage, and network, but also the cost of management and operation and maintenance.

If the company's project can't continue to use the render farm, with waves of updates and iterations, the depreciation cost of the machine is really high, and cloud rendering is like electricity. The continued use of cloud rendering to a certain extent spreads out the cost.

And for many excellent start-up teams, not every one of them has sufficient funds to build their own rendering farm, so the cloud rendering platform has invisibly lowered the threshold for film and television production.

The render farm we are now referring to is cloud rendering.

The use of cloud rendering is also very simple, you only need to search for cloud rendering to find a service provider that does cloud rendering, register them, ** and install the customer service side, log in to the client to install the plugin (for example: install 3dmax2009).

Then open the design software, set the rendering save path, and submit the task you have done.

After rendering, the rendered result will be saved directly to the save path you set.

A render farm refers to a supercomputer built with existing CPUs, Ethernet, and operating systems. In layman's terms, it is a "distributed parallel cluster computing system" that schedules many computers together in a certain way and renders the same project at the same time to save rendering time.

So how do you use a render farm?

Taking Renderbus Cloud Render Farm as an example, both the client and the web side can submit renders, which are generally guided by the help tutorial3ds maxExample of a tutorial submission on the renderbus web page:

1.Register an account and log in to the cloud rendering platform;

Click the Submit button on the left, select the submitted software > Set the project path (Note: this project path needs to contain all the assets used in the 3ds Max file) > select the render file and click Next.

Click the Submit button.

Add software configuration and hardware configuration information to the submission job (Note: the production file has the software and plug-in version information used, and the vray renderer does not need to be configured), click Start Analysis, and wait patiently for the analysis to be completed.

Add software configuration information.

Add hardware configuration information.

Click the "Analyze Completed" task, set the rendering parameters, and submit the rendering (note: the task only starts rendering at this time).

Set the rendering parameters.

Submit the render. <>

The above four steps are:Render farmsIn fact, the use of render farms is not complicated, on the contrary, it can also improve your work efficiency to a certain extent. A professional cloud rendering farm has its own technical research and development team and product team, from the use level, technical level, and software level, constantly collect user needs, continuously optimize the user experience according to the actual use of users, and try to allow customers to complete all operations in a few steps.

Finally, I hope it can help you

When you are busy, you can use cloud rendering, which can help you save some of the time of rendering, which can greatly improve your work efficiency.

Whether to use cloud rendering mainly depends on whether you need to produce the picture quickly, if the picture is not in a hurry, you can throw it on the computer every day when you sleep, and there is no cost.

If there are more pictures, customers can use cloud rendering, cloud rendering can be batch rendering, the speed is fast, and a set of pictures can be rendered out quickly, and the rendering of the map will not delay the drawing, it is still very convenient, the only problem is that the rendering costs money, and it may cost dozens of dollars to render it a few more times.

What I usually use more is to render 100 cloud rendering, the speed is very fast, mainly cheap, a picture is generally only 8 cents, very cost-effective.

1. When you are not busy in the off-season, you must use your own computer to render, draw during the day, render at night, do not spend money, and spend time, unless your computer configuration is low, the rendering is really slow, or the rendering cannot be rendered, and there is no way to spend money on cloud rendering.

2. When the peak season is busy, it is recommended to continue to use cloud rendering. Mapping and rendering are correct, and the operation of overall cloud rendering is also very convenient, try a few more cloud rendering platforms, choose cheap ones, support many plug-ins, and have a low rendering error rate, you can do it. The studio can improve the efficiency by at least 50% by using cloud rendering, which saves 50% of the time, can take better rest, and can also draw more pictures.

I hope my reply is helpful to you.

Rendering is related to the configuration of the computer and the parameters of the diagram, generally using the local computer to render will be slower, mainly because the configuration can not keep up, and the rendering will occupy the computer memory.

The cloud rendering platform has an exclusive server room, the configuration is higher than that of home computers, and the rendering speed will be several times or even more than ten times faster than that of your own computer rendering (mainly depending on the thread speed used), and you can continue to draw after uploading without taking up memory.

Generally, 24 and 48 threads are enough, and up to 192 threads can be used to render, and the picture is only created within 10 minutes, and the first image is rendered for free every day.

I'm learning design.,Usually don't have a lot of drawings to render, I'm more inclined to render by myself.,After all, it doesn't cost money.,And I'm at ease.,It's just that my computer configuration is not high enough.,Rendering is really slow.,Once the computer starts to render the map, I can't do anything.,This is a headache.。

However, when I set up classes or hand in assignments, it is obvious that my computer is unbearable, and I can't bear it myself, so I will consider cloud rendering. I've been scavenging the wool on all major platforms, and I've used all the newcomer registration discounts, and I have to say that it's really not as good as my own rendering if it's too cheap. Therefore, the only thing that will continue to be used in the end is Xuanyun.

Their special mode is up to 8 yuan per picture. Recently, there is a new mode for the first hour, and the first hour is only yuan. His family also often engages in activities, pay more attention to save a lot of money, although ** is not the lowest, but the cost performance I think is very worthwhile, you can refer to my experience.

Cloud rendering is a solution based on cloud services for the 3D rendering industry, which can be transferred to the cloud by submitting files with one click, rendering in the cloud, and helping the local computer to do other work without delaying the local computer.

Advantages of Cloud Rendering:

Easy to use

Once installed, it only takes a few clicks to enter the necessary settings and start rendering.

Smart features. Render Cloud improves workflow efficiency by checking anything that has been uploaded and uploading only new and changed parts of the scene. In addition, users can quickly see their rendering progress from the live preview; Support a variety of software and renderers, support a variety of channel rendering, can customize the rendering scheme according to the demand, support high-parameter large image worry-free rendering, can be viewed in real-time progress on mobile phones, and can be viewed through WeChat on mobile phones, and the result files can be shared.

Speed

As a one-stop cloud rendering platform, Render Cloud has massive computing resources, data security assurance, extreme rendering performance, supports batch rendering of multi-angle tasks at the same time, rendering is efficient and convenient, and Render Cloud uses high-performance servers, which are stable and reliable, and can meet the needs of users for large-scale emergency rendering.

Cloud rendering refers to a way of using cloud computing resources on the internet for rendering tasks. The user uploads the scene file to be rendered to the cloud rendering platform, and the server cluster on the platform completes the rendering task, and finally returns the rendering result to the user. Compared with traditional on-premise rendering, cloud rendering has the following advantages:

Easy scalability: The server cluster on the cloud rendering platform can be dynamically scaled according to user needs, and the number of servers can be increased or decreased at any time to accommodate different sizes of rendering tasks.

Efficient and fast: The server clusters on the cloud rendering platform have powerful computing power and bandwidth, which can complete large-scale, high-quality rendering tasks in a short period of time, improving rendering efficiency and speed.

Flexible and convenient: The cloud rendering platform can provide 24-hour service, allowing users to upload and manage rendering tasks anytime and anywhere.

Building your own render farm requires expensive work such as purchasing servers, installing rendering software, and maintaining hardware, as well as management and maintenance issues. In contrast, using a cloud rendering platform avoids these costs and problems, while also choosing a different scale of rendering services** depending on your needs, which is convenient, fast, and affordable.

It should be noted that different cloud rendering platforms have different quality of service and best policies, and users need to choose the right cloud rendering platform to meet their needs and budget.

Traditional render farms are equipped with their own offline computer rooms, and designers hand over the files that need to be rendered to the render farms for rendering. Generally speaking, the machine resources used in the offline computer room are relatively old, the replacement is slow, and the designers cannot understand the rendering progress and effect in real time during the rendering process, and the real-time interaction is very poor, which affects the work efficiency.

Cloud rendering mostly uses machine resources from major manufacturers such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, JD Cloud, and Tencent Cloud, which is fast to replace and has higher rendering efficiency. Designers only need to register the cloud rendering platform by themselves, upload the scene file directly to the client, select the number of models, set the rendering parameters to submit, and can understand the rendering progress and rendering effect in real time through the cloud rendering client, WeChat***, applet and other ways, and the rendering can be produced after the rendering is completed.