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They should rent this out, I have 3 computers rendering frames right now, and I can't find more graphics cards anywhere.
by Grakel 6y ago
They should rent this out, I have 3 computers rendering frames right now, and I can't find more graphics cards anywhere.
- stickydink 6y ago(I'm not super informed in this space) AWS WorkSpaces purports to have machines with meaty GPU's, are they not powerful enough?
- Grakel 6y agoI'm sure they are, I just need to make the leap. :)
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoMost cloud GPUs are just thin-sliced datacenter GPUs which only have one redeaming quality: high RAM per PCIe slot. The $100,000 GPU can be beaten by a $5,000 consumer space CPU for raw compute but is basically 3 to 4 times the amount of RAM.
- cameronh90 6y agoThe problem with AWS Workspaces for us was the price was just too damn high. Their Graphics Pro instance was okay spec: 16 vCPU, 122 GB memory, 8 GB VRAM. But they charge $1000/month for it. Our $3000 workstations beat it in every benchmark, sometimes by 3-5x and have a useful lifetime of at least three years. I'm sure for some people, that is a valid trade off, but for us, it was just too much.
- jrgilman 6y agoAre you rendering 24/7....?
- skytrue 6y agoThere's a niche in the space for workspaces that support "low intensity 3D applications" with 99.99% uptime. Right now, all the major cloud vendors (AWS/Azure/GCP) are prohibitive with respect to pricing. I can spend $600 to buy a dedicated machine to run my GPU-bound workload 24 hours a day, or spend $600/month to have a dedicated GPU instance. Things like Paperspace don't cater to this particular workload, still. I've honestly thought about creating a new PaaS provider that attacks this niche. Seems doable.
- Budabellly 6y agoHave you looked at RNDR? Sounds like it could be a perfect match for what you are looking for. It's designed for Octane GPU renderer but there are more render engine supports coming soon I believe. https://medium.com/render-token https://medium.com/render-token