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100k machines doesn't sound right - cores possibly but not machines. Even the big effects houses like MPC (with farms in London, Montreal, Vancouver and works
by berkut 10y ago
100k machines doesn't sound right - cores possibly but not machines.
Even the big effects houses like MPC (with farms in London, Montreal, Vancouver and works on on average 18-20 films at once - some entire exclusives) don't need that many cores.
Atomic Fiction don't have that big a film/sequence/shot count - if they are using that much core time it doesn't sound like they're being that efficient.
Surely they must be using artists workstations at night to render some stuff - they can't be sending all their stuff to the cloud.
- KaiserPro 10y agoyes, sorry cores. However you have to remember that they are paying only for the time that the machines are used. so 100 hours on one node is the same cost as 1 hour on a 100 nodes. One of the nice things about zync is that each shot has a cost, which is really nice. The other thing to note is that workstation make terrible render nodes. They always are in a weird state, and usually have something changed from the stock image. Plus Atomic fiction are only ~30-100 people, so not really worth the effort to bring workstations online.