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The idea of being able to "rent" a supercomputer at a moment's notice (relative to buying one, at least) is interesting. Makes one wonder; what % of Amazon's ca
by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
The idea of being able to "rent" a supercomputer at a moment's notice (relative to buying one, at least) is interesting. Makes one wonder; what % of Amazon's capacity is this; and how high up the Top500 would all of it be?
- ChuckMcM 15y agoIn the article they said the 30K core machine would be #42 in the Top500. Except it wasn't submitted as a candidate. It would be interesting to have a super computer config in one's EC2 portfolio for the quick CFD run, or animation sequence. It is the latter which I find an interesting question. How hard would it be to create an 'on the fly' CGI studio? Something where your artists and their workstations are around 24/7 but when it comes time to render you pop it off to EC2 and just bill the studio for the time. That could be pretty disruptive in that business.
- narism 15y agoThere are already a number of services that offer on-demand rendering so I assume studios that take on jobs too large for their current farm are already using them. Where I work we often use spare workstations (rendering is a fraction of our workforce) on off hours to process large jobs but have been looking at EC2 options for a while. If there were a service that provided a ready to go solution on EC2 for 3dsmax/Vray, I'd have to take a close look at it.