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New movies don’t use aws. Don’t believe the marketing . None of the big vfx studios uses the cloud as their main render farm, mostly for bursts .. it’s crazy ex
by aprdm 4y ago
New movies don’t use aws. Don’t believe the marketing . None of the big vfx studios uses the cloud as their main render farm, mostly for bursts .. it’s crazy expensive
- speedgoose 4y agoYes you don’t need that many months of workloads to make a on premise cluster worth it. Surprisingly.
- lambdasquirrel 4y agoThat doesn't surprise me at all. Just the entry level p3.xlarge is $2k USD a month. You'll be able to build your own in short order if you're actually using it all the time.
- fredoliveira 4y agoWell... I read this earlier today: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/avatar-the-way-of-water-was-rendered-in-amazon-web-services/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/avatar-the-way-of...
- gamblor956 4y ago"It usually uses its data centers to process multiple films at the same time. With Avatar: TWOW, even the entire data center was not enough." "Rendering each frame took 8,000 thread hours, or the combined power of 3,000 vCPUs in the cloud for an hour." "“we couldn’t architecturally expand our data center because that would require infrastructure that would go to the city council, and we all know what it’s like to go through local government," he said.""