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	Render Farm Rentals from CRE / (877) 266-7725
		The beauty of rendering farms is the fact that many computers work on the same problem, a task at a time.
		CRE has experience in creating a render farm using 8-core Mac Pro rentals or Xserve rentals, the backbone of some of the most capable render farms being used today.
		We can assist you with our "render farm toolbox" which includes the high-performance graphics capabilities of the 8-core Mac Pro rental, an additional 16 gig of RAM and 23" Apple Cinema Display.
	computerrentals.com /products/Specialty/render_farm.php (410 words)

	Render Farm Main Page
		Rendered frames can become available for client viewing on a secure area of our web site as soon as they are finished, allowing the client to check progress and identify potential problems early, ensuring a risk-free venture.
		Rates for hiring the render farm work on a sliding scale, with variable rates according to the number of processors used and the time required to render the job.
		It works by comparing the speed of your computer to the speed of a render farm machine and extrapolating the time required to render the entire project based on the render time of example frames from the animation.
	www.ap3d.com /core/render_farm.htm (721 words)

	Build a digital animation system, Part 2: Create, edit, and store rich content
		The term render farm in general means a collection of networked computers, called nodes, all rendering some part or all of a frame of animation.
		Render management applications are toolsets for managing the process of distributing a render (a frame to be rendered) out to a farm of servers (the render farm).
		Blades are a very good fit for render farms because they combine the most computers per square foot with aggregation of common functionality (power, networking, cabling) that can reduce the capital and operational costs of a loosely-coupled supercomputer.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/web/library/wa-animstudio2?ca=dnt-631 (5236 words)

	BOXX :: Rendering for DCC and Visualizations :: Render Nodes for your Render Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Once the render node is configured to your network, 3rd party rendering manager software (like Backburner) can be installed to manage the individual render nodes.
		The 3rd party render managing software will allocate the frames to be rendered to the render nodes and continually disperse the frames until all frames are rendered.
		Upon completion, the render nodes will sit idle until the render managing software sends it additional frames to be rendered.
	www.boxxtech.com /products/rendernodes.asp (721 words)

	Power cluster
		A render farm was handy for Pacific Data Images (PDI), a visual effects and animation studio that created and co-produced the movie Antz with Dreamworks SKG.
		PDI built a large-scale render farm in early 1997 to handle the massive quantity of rendering required for a feature film, according to Mark Kirk, lead technical director for systems at the Palo Alto company.
		Moreover, the production and entertainment firm used the render farm to produce the visual effects for the recent release of Wing Commander, a live action movie based on the game of the same name.
	www.networkworld.com /netresources/0517render.html (1014 words)

	Render King - FAQ
		There are up to 36,000 cpu render hours available per 30 day subscription (25 dedicated render farm computers X 2 cpu X 24 hours in a day X 30 day usage period).
		Bake any plug-ins you can before rendering, this in most cases relieves the need for the plug-in to be on the render farm - many plug-ins may not function normally when distributed between multiple processors.
		For render farm user account status, access or rendering issues, or any other RenderKing related questions email to help@RenderKing.com the response time will be as soon as possible.
	www.renderking.com /rkfaq.htm (1858 words)

	Welcome to render-it.co.uk
		'Comprising a network of 82 CPUs, Render-It's render farm is capable of rendering 3D work in a fraction of the time that it would take in an average design studio.
		Render-it is delighted to announce the launch of the mental ray® rendering service.
		"A British-based 'render farm' called Render-it, which launches next month, is promising to cut the time needed to post-produce graphics and animation by up to 90 per cent.
	www.render-it.co.uk /news.htm (381 words)

	3dXtract Forum - for Carrara, Amapi and Hexagon - 3dxtract render farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ideally, you would send your files directly to someone and they start up the process for you on their farm which shouldn't be that much of a hazzle but it does take a devoted person to monitor and set up each of the renders.
		Still of course the bandwidth of the machines on the network would still slow down the render some, but not as significantly as is if the file had to be uploaded to all the users at start-up of the render.
		The server (client that wants to have a render done), would know the speed of the individual machines it had available due to specs like ram, free disk space and cpu speed and amount of cpus, that way it could easily distribute the amount they should all render.
	www.3dxtract.com /cfforum/printthread.cfm?Forum=6&Topic=707 (3226 words)

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		However, we are aware of the demand, and are developing a render pipeline to support 3ds Max, as well as plug-in renderers for Max.
		Render farms larger than 32 servers may require additional setup time.
		Each render server has 3 Gb of RAM, and without the Dual Threaded option being used, each render server will render 2 frames simultaneously, and therefore, the total RAM available to each render frame in this case is 1.5 Gb.
	www.renderrocket.com /faq.aspx (609 words)

	Spymac :: Forums :: Technology :: Hardware Central :: Does anyone here know how to make a render farm for CAD stuff? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		My teacher said he thinks we can make a render farm and connect all the computers in the room (24) to render one movie.
		Unless I let it render over a weekend, I think the render farm is my only option.
		Render farms aren't exactly simple to setup...the simplest of all the grid computing platforms to setup is a Mac-based XGrid...but I doubt that you can render for Autodesk 3D Viz on Macs, as I don't believe they make a Mac version.
	www.spymac.com /forums/showthread.php?threadid=179451 (465 words)

	Render farm dry cooling project - TechSpot OpenBoards
		For school, I'm about to submit a project proposal to the faculty for a render farm: The system itself will be 8-15 lower-end PC's linked together to a main computer to perform rendering operations for the art students.
		As long as the Farm is in an enclosed space that is sealed and you're AC unit has a dehumidification function you should be fine.
		If the farm is to be in a box or a closet then just rememebr to seal, seal, seal and insulate - you dont want your hard earned cooling going out the door so to say.
	www.techspot.com /vb/topic32934.html (621 words)

	elYsiun.com :: View topic - Blender Render Farm Poll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This would then set them up to allow our rendering farm to render there images as fast as we can and get them back to you within the same day (or withing reasonable time based on render times).
		At the rate you've posted, you could get 12 render requests and be swamped with only $240 to use to increase your infrastructure to meet demand (even less if some of those requests come from the same individual)...
		With that said that is the big advantage...we are talking universal render farm not just mom and pop shop where we have one location - we'de have them at the locations of each of our admins....us, canada, uk, australia....
	www.elysiun.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=34862 (2012 words)

	Linux Networx Render Farm Powers Special Effects in "The Core" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		CIS Hollywood used the Linux Networx render farm to render volumetric fluid surrounding “Virgil” as it travels through rock, magma, crystals and diamonds on its way to the earth’s core.
		The render farm was also used to composite all elements of the scene together.
		The render farm, also called a Linux cluster, is a set of independent computers linked together through a high-speed network to form a unified and more powerful computing system.
	www.linuxnetworx.com /news/4.2.2003.32-Linux_Networx_R.html (508 words)

	LightWave 3D® - Go Ahead, Make A Scene
		I can even configure the network render farm to utilize remote render nodes across the Internet, which is very useful when I need to harness additional render nodes for a burst of speed on any particular project.
		Render Farm Commander can split a still frame across the render farm and also assemble it when done, as well as many other features.
		Using LightWave 3D's particle system and DreamLight's in-house render farm, I was able to animate hundreds of individual molecules and control their motions with inter-object collisions.
	www.newtek.com /lightwave/profiles/MichaelScaramozzino (2644 words)

	Render Rocket Render Farm - Home
		Render Rocket News :: The Picture Mill renders The Ant Bully end title sequence using Render Rocket's remote render...
		Render Rocket is a 3D render farm supporting Maya, Mental Ray, and Maxwell Render.
		Enter the total render frames and average render time per frame for a rough cost estimate.
	www.renderrocket.com (98 words)

	Linode.com Discussion :: View topic - povray render farm?
		There was a discussion a while back about perhaps having a gcc compile farm with Linode machines, but it was decided that it would be a bad idea as the machines couldn't necessarily be trusted, which is obviously very important when it comes to executable code.
		IMO, a node of a render farm, no matter what it's supposed to render, should be a dedicated machine of its own, not part of a virtual dedicated server.
		A render farm can and will use a lot of CPU, which is just less than useful on a VPS (Linode), taking the CPU allocation into consideration.
	www.linode.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=1550 (379 words)

	Welcome to CG Channel
		A render farm is a collection of computers that work together to turn a 3D wireframe scene into a full-colored image sequence.
		Before ResPower, it was necessary to build an in-house render farm in order to finish animations in a timely manner, which required purchasing not only computers but the infrastructure required to support them, including networking, servers, room chillers, and more.
		Users simply log on to the site and render, almost as if the ResPower render farm were located in their own facilities.
	www.cgchannel.com /news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=2130 (325 words)

	ChiefDelphi Forums - Setting up a render farm
		I have no idea how to set up a render farm, but I really need to find out because one computer takes an unacceptable amount of time to render...
		Net rendering is tricky and the less details there are involved the easier it will be.
		You are going to have to render a sequence of images rather than your standard AVI file.
	www.chiefdelphi.com /forums/showthread.php?t=23908 (638 words)

	elYsiun.com :: View topic - Render Farm Investment Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Real Effects Studios is considering buying a render farm system in which users could pay a monthly fee to have them render your artwork and upload it to the web under a fully customizable account.
		The rendering files would be sent to the host as a zip file containing the "press F12".blend file with all associated files included.
		Your render will be added to the list based on first come first serve with the exception of those with animation rendering.
	www.elysiun.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=34633 (1125 words)

	Farm Manager - Render Managers Tools
		The Farm Manager is a client-server application used for partitioning and distributing compute jobs across a cluster of machines.
		The other half is the Farm Node which handles the launching and monitoring of a particular task on a machine.
		Version 2.x of the Farm Manager is built around a plug-in architecture which allows anyone to add support for virtually any application.
	www.highend3d.com /downloads/tools/render_managers/2744.html (154 words)

	Build Your Own Render Farm - ExtremeTech Discussions
		Build Your Own Render Farm Posted: 08-12-2005, 2:14 PM I'm not sure the speed of a system's graphics card has anything to do with the speed of offline rendering (unless having a card enables the system to disable integrated graphics and thus avoid the performance hit of shared memory).
		Build Your Own Render Farm Posted: 08-12-2005, 5:14 PM Don't hesitate to mimic wirings you don't understand; if several wires are unplugged from a motherboard, just ape the cable scheme from a similar machine in better condition.
		Build Your Own Render Farm Posted: 08-12-2005, 7:34 PM Don't hesitate to mimic wirings you don't understand; if several wires are unplugged from a motherboard, just ape the cable scheme from a similar machine in better condition.
	discuss.extremetech.com /forums/762602001/ShowPost.aspx (549 words)

	Autodesk - Discussion Groups - Render Farm for 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Instead, the workstation will pop up an all fl render window, as if it was about to produce a slide, and then closes.
		All of the render nodes must have the RPC config files in the plugins folder, the pluginscfg folder, and the stdplugins folder.
		All of the render nodes must also read to the manager node on the render farm within the Viz program.
	discussion.autodesk.com /thread.jspa?threadID=401387 (971 words)

	ResPower Super/Farm Render Farm
		Because each display is actually 5 screens wide, the animation itself was rendered at a whopping 10,000 pixels wide by 1,080 pixels high.
		Because each display consists of 5 side by side 70 inch screens, image quality for the renders was of the utmost importance.
		The ResPower Super/Farm™ supports over 58 configurations of eleven render engines, and is available for unlimited use for the lowest prices in the industry.
	www.respower.com /news_2007_04_10_tronic (704 words)

	Pixar An Intel Shop? Say It Ain't So, Steve! \|\| The Mac Observer
		Renderers usually are not just one computer, but a farm of many to which the huge rendering job is distributed in bite sized pieces.
		The faster your farm can render the faster you can complete a movie, so animation shops like Pixar are constantly upgrading their render farms with the fastest available computers.
		Pixar's render farm traditionally had been filled with computers from Sun, that's all changed now according to a report from CNet News.
	www.macobserver.com /article/2003/02/10.7.shtml (1413 words)

	Creative Cow - Read Thread Posts - Magic Bullet Suite
		I tried to use the AE render farm but had lots of problems with render confilicts.
		I have been trying to use Qmaster which comes with FCP 5 which creates render farms but no luck getting it to work so far, plus it has poor documentation.
		I render out a QT movie from FCP using the Micrcosom codec (you need to but this one of you use it from digital anrchy.
	forums.creativecow.net /cgi-bin/right_read_post_frame.cgi?forumid=138&univpostid=854652&postid=854652 (834 words)

	NewTek's SIGGRAPH Booth to Feature TCP/IP-Based Apple G4 Render Farm And NewTek's StealthNET Render Controller
		The render farm configuration will also enable NewTek to demonstrate its new StealthNET render controller, which is based on TCP/IP and so enables Internet-based rendering.
		StealthNET can link to systems around the world for cooperative rendering projects, which is increasingly important for large-scale projects such as movies, TV shows and commercials that may require multiple teams of animators working at vastly disparate locations worldwide.
		LightWave [6] offers breakthrough rendering technologies, advanced animation tools and a new modeling paradigm as well as improved workflow, better control over texturing, customizable user interface and extensive improvements to real-time views.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-26-2000/0001275398&EDATE= (678 words)

	Adobe Premiere Render Farm - Neowin.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		If it is possible to make a render farm, I'm wondering if it could also encode using all the computers, since I usually use Adobe Media Encoder (since my videos usually don't have any complex features).
		it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to do, but it probably is....all those farms of computers used to render in big hollywood movies (like LOTR and such) probably aren't even running windows....probably some weird form of linux on a fiberoptic network or something like that where they can share their processor power....
		Render farms are primarily used for CGI, but that takes approximately 1 hour per frame to render, which is quite different from my 2 hours rendering time for the entire hour-long movie.
	www.neowin.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=337339 (398 words)

	Respower Render Farm - CGarchitect.com
		I was able to get everything resolved a new DLL deployed and renderred the frames and I was able to meet my morning deadline.
		If you create an account and look at the "purchase bulk hours" section you will see the actual cost for rendering, as the prices listed on the site are a bit higher that what you actually pay.
		The farm I use has cautioned me not to use the beta for projects I submit to them.
	www.cgarchitect.com /vb/showthread.php?t=7578&page=3&pp=10 (1017 words)

	Respower Render Farm - Page 3 - CGarchitect.com
		Unfortunately, Maxon's net render feature is insufficient for us for a variety of technical reasons that I won't go into for strategic reasons, so some effort is required on Maxon's part in addition to ResPower's to see C4D appear at our facility.
		I don't know what kind of technical problems you ran into, but Renderking is an existing render farm that is very reliable and has gotten me through several big jobs.
		So if a 'farm' had the C netrender client, I should be able to run on all available machines via MY licence, not theirs.
	www.cgarchitect.com /vb/showthread.php?t=7578&page=3&pp=10 (922 words)

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