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NOTE: The UTSOA Render Farm currently accepts render jobs from the following versions: 3DS MAX 2023, RHINO7.x.and RHINO versions seen in the SOA Classrooms.
Render Farm Workflow
- The render farm workflow starts with the original model created by the artist/student on an individual workstation.
- The model is then submitted through the render farm manager (ie, Royal Render) which then distributes the renderings across the render farm clients (SOA Render Farm).
- The School of Architecture has a dedicated render farm consists of consisting 50 systems capable of both CPU and GPU render groups.Production: CPU/ GPU rendering
- Teaching: CPU rendering All: rendering with both Production, Teaching, WMB, VR Lab combined.
- Students can also access the Autodesk 360 Render Cloud, however this option offers less control of the output. You can render directly from Revit, AutoCAD or Fusion 360.
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UTSOA Render Farm Structure
- Production: 40 50 High Power Render Farmers CPU/GPU
- The Farm can render jobs (scenes) generated in 3DS Max (Scanline, ART, VUE, VRay, Arnold), Rhino , Adobe After Effects, Vray for Max, and Vray for Rhino(Rhino Render, VRay), and Blender 3D.
- The Farm is available to help expedite your rendering jobs, and to free up personal or lab computers for other tasks.
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- Workstations
- Sends scenes to the Render Farm Server
- Waits/Renders in the background during the day
- Renders full power during the night
- Server
- Handles all render job submissions
- Works with Mac, Windows & Linux
- Render Farmers
- CPU and GPU Rendering 24/7
- Automatically shuts down when not rendering to save energy.
- WMB Classroom systems come online for rendering tasks after hours only.
- File Server
- Stores your scene files, images, maps, textures, and animations
- Stores and runs the Render Farm Server applications
- Required to be an Enterprise level Server.