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Google Cloud Platform offers https://www.zyncrender.com/ https://www.zyncrender.com/

• ChuckMcM 8y ago
  Okay that is pretty close, and acquired by Google in 2014. So presumably it is possible to be a small CGI shop and use this as your back end. Now I'm wondering if the economics pencil out. Clearly there was something that motivated Google to buy them.
  • manigandham 8y ago
    They work just fine, the product is one of many that's used by shops now. GCP even recently launched a LA region and had an entire day dedicated to the local VFX shops. Nothing stops you from just running a bunch of VMs which many do and they have rolled out the Filestore NFS to make shared disks easier too.
    • detaro 8y ago
      Is that a recent shift? I remember talking to someone from a VFX shop a few years ago, and they made it sound like back then anything cloud was a no-go due to their customers requiring material to stay in-house for fear of leaks.
      • BGyss 8y ago
        Recent enough - at a Google event earlier in 2018 it was mentioned that GCP was now compliant with most (if not all) of the major studios’ security requirements.
      • manigandham 8y ago
        Yes, smaller studios were early but now the majors like Sony Imageworks are all in. The cloud is a great fit for most of their rendering jobs and security is no different (if not better handled by the cloud). Here's a session from GCP Next 2018 for cloud render farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODOJ3UbnV6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODOJ3UbnV6Y