Large CGI render farms on the Eastern US coast ?

[Elias Tejeda]

I'm curious if there are any 100+ machine Render farms on the east coast ?

 

[John Brennick]

It's located in Boston (I believe).

https://www.zyncrender.com/

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Zync is just Amazon AWS so they could be in any Region. A similar option would be Thinkbox's VMX cloud extension for Deadline.
http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/new...veils-deadline-61-and-vmx-extension-at-s.html

RenderRocket is also on Amazon. GreenButton is on Azure which also has an east coast datacenter.

I guess my real question is why do they need to be on the East Coast? Almost every single render farm company I know of is CoLo'ed on a super fat pipe. It shouldn't matter where they are unless they're a few blocks away and you could light up some dark fiber for a LAN.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Zync is just Amazon AWS so they could be in any Region. A similar option would be Thinkbox's VMX cloud extension for Deadline.
http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/new...veils-deadline-61-and-vmx-extension-at-s.html

RenderRocket is also on Amazon. GreenButton is on Azure which also has an east coast datacenter.

I guess my real question is why do they need to be on the East Coast? Almost every single render farm company I know of is CoLo'ed on a super fat pipe. It shouldn't matter where they are unless they're a few blocks away and you could light up some dark fiber for a LAN.

Or send hardrives...

 

[paulherrin]

http://sfdm.ca.scad.edu/render/

1600 GB of RAM and 936 total dedicated cores.

always a good laugh to be had on here looking at bad renders, although every now and then some very good ones...
(course the best's are usually in passes which messes up the preview)

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Or send hardrives...

FEDEX'ed renderfarm submissions/downloads seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Maybe Elias has a strange specific use case but even with 10mbps upload speeds ($80 a month), that's 85GB per day upload rate. I don't know many datasets that are larger than 80GB unless you're rendering volumetrics. That's say 10 scenes and over 700 4k zipped textures.

EDIT: One thing you can do is go to a local colocation center and ask what their data transfer rate is. They can sometimes set you up on a per-GB basis without actually renting rack space. You'll get a nice fat fiber connection on demand.

 

[Elias Tejeda]

Lots of great suggestions, I'll be looking into them this week.