Rendering is the most compute-intensive part of a movie production. By some estimates rendering can account for 90% of the total compute hours over the entire life of an animated feature or visual effects-laden feature film. Rendering is a highly-complex, distributed process with dependencies between render jobs and digital assets. Qube! render farm management software,…
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Studio Daily: Previewing Qube 7 with New GUI, Postgres Database Support
Qube's Metered Licensing for Burstable Cloud Capacity Is 'Taking Off,' Despite Industry Inertia PipelineFX is previewing Qube 7, a major release that overhauls both the UI and the backend of the render-farm management software, at SIGGRAPH this week. Qube 7 will sport a new, unified GUI with a view that adjusts automatically based on a…
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GCP Preemptible VMs now up to 33% cheaper
Google Cloud Platform is happy to announce that we’ve lowered the price of Preemptible VMs by up to 33%! Since launching Preemptible VMs last year, we’ve tuned our algorithms, improved their efficiency and analyzed usage patterns. Our experience, combined with the growth of Google Cloud Platform, allows us to offer deeper discounts. For example, the price of…
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State of Cloud Rendering for VFX Panel – Siggraph 2016 Birds of a Feather
"State of Cloud Rendering for VFX" Anaheim Convention Center Room 213 D Monday July 25th 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Discussions on the latest offerings, technologies, opportunities, pitfalls, and best practices of this year's hot topic in rendering. Audio from Session Here Moderator: Panel:
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