Give students practical experience with the scheduling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and shared-rendering workflows they will encounter in professional production.
Qube! helps students understand how work moves through a shared render farm—from application submission and resource allocation to job monitoring, failure recovery, and final delivery.
That makes it useful for animation, visual effects, motion design, broadcast, game-art, and digital-media programs that want infrastructure lessons to feel connected to real creative work.
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FOR INSTITUTIONS
One annual plan for the lab.
Education site subscriptions are tailored to your institution, lab size, and render capacity. They include the Qube! Supervisor, Worker capacity, product updates, maintenance, and PipelineFX support.
Predictable annual budgeting
Current subscription licensing
Support for faculty and administrators
Capacity sized to your environment
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FOR STUDENTS
Professional habits, learned early.
Students submit from familiar creative applications, follow job and frame progress, understand priorities and dependencies, and learn how shared resources affect production decisions.
Application-integrated submission
Job and frame monitoring
Priorities, dependencies, and retries
Cross-platform collaboration
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FOR FACULTY & IT
A farm your team can manage.
Centralized administration helps technical staff coordinate classroom workstations and dedicated render nodes while instructors focus on creative outcomes and pipeline concepts.
Central Worker configuration
Farm-wide visibility
Training and deployment guidance
Expert technical support
Qube! 8.1
Teach with the tools students are learning now.
The upcoming Qube! 8.1 release broadens media and editorial workflows, updates major DCC support, and runs natively on Apple Silicon through a Universal Binary.
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FINALS, REVIEWS & DEADLINES
Plan for the weeks when everyone renders at once.
Academic render demand is cyclical. PipelineFX can help you plan capacity for peak periods and explain any education burst options currently available for your subscription.
PipelineFX provides an annual quote based on your institution, network structure, and the number of machines you want available for rendering. Contact sales for current pricing.
Can we use existing lab workstations?
Yes. Qube! can coordinate supported Windows, Linux, and macOS workstations alongside dedicated render hardware, helping schools use equipment they already own.
Does the subscription include support?
Education subscriptions include maintenance, product updates, and technical support. Training and deployment consulting can also be arranged.
Can Qube! support more than one course?
Yes. Priorities, users, groups, and centralized management help technical teams coordinate workloads across courses, labs, and deadlines.
BUILD A BETTER LAB
Bring production rendering into the curriculum.
Tell us about your courses, applications, machines, and academic calendar.