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How To: Building Your Own Render Farm : Introduction - Review Tom's Hardware
- icey 17y agoHave there been many discussions on doing this versus spooling up EC2 instances (or something similar)? I would imagine that EC2 is cheaper in the short term, or if you only occasionally need this kind of processing power; and then owning your own hardware would get cheaper eventually (assuming your power costs don't kill you).
- jrbedard 17y agoThe problem with EC2 nodes is that they don't have graphic cards, so no GPU-accelerated rendering. Which could be ok, depending on which software renderer package you use.
- noonespecial 17y agoI think its more about the massive amounts of texturing and polygon data that needs to fly back and forth between the nodes and your master. GigE is definitely the way to go. Getting all of your data to your EC2's might be a deal breaker.