AMDave
03-02-2012, 01:51 AM
First Cycles render ever on Renderfarm.fi!
We are extremely proud to announce that Renderfarm.fi might well be the first renderfarm on the planet to have successfully implemented distributed rendering for Blender's new awesome render engine Cycles. Although still at a preliminary testing phase, most of the difficult work is now behind us. We've created proof of concept that our method of splitting and computing work in to small sample sets, collecting them and combining them into a high quality and high resolution finish on the server side works. Here's Nathan's test render from yesterday that proves our case, the image on the right is the result of m
erging 100 21-sample images together, in effect creating a 2100-sample image:
http://www.renderfarm.fi/sites/default/files/6794383202_1ce8070a32_z.jpg The first session to apply this new technology is now running (http://www.renderfarm.fi/animations/7348). As Cycles is in early beta for us, all Cycles sessions will be running on a small subset of computers. If you would like to help us in testing, please get in contact with Gekko on this forum thread (http://www.renderfarm.fi/forum/post/16296). Similarly we would We would also now like to invite artists to send us some us some ultra realistic scenes, computationally intensive that they would like to see rendered as tests on Renderfarm.fi. If you have any, please get in contact on the same forum post or find us on on IRC Freenode #Renderfarm.fi! Three cheers for Blender!
More... (http://www.renderfarm.fi/blog/prodigalson/first-cycles-render-ever-renderfarmfi)
We are extremely proud to announce that Renderfarm.fi might well be the first renderfarm on the planet to have successfully implemented distributed rendering for Blender's new awesome render engine Cycles. Although still at a preliminary testing phase, most of the difficult work is now behind us. We've created proof of concept that our method of splitting and computing work in to small sample sets, collecting them and combining them into a high quality and high resolution finish on the server side works. Here's Nathan's test render from yesterday that proves our case, the image on the right is the result of m
erging 100 21-sample images together, in effect creating a 2100-sample image:
http://www.renderfarm.fi/sites/default/files/6794383202_1ce8070a32_z.jpg The first session to apply this new technology is now running (http://www.renderfarm.fi/animations/7348). As Cycles is in early beta for us, all Cycles sessions will be running on a small subset of computers. If you would like to help us in testing, please get in contact with Gekko on this forum thread (http://www.renderfarm.fi/forum/post/16296). Similarly we would We would also now like to invite artists to send us some us some ultra realistic scenes, computationally intensive that they would like to see rendered as tests on Renderfarm.fi. If you have any, please get in contact on the same forum post or find us on on IRC Freenode #Renderfarm.fi! Three cheers for Blender!
More... (http://www.renderfarm.fi/blog/prodigalson/first-cycles-render-ever-renderfarmfi)