Render Verse: Hybrid Render Farm for Cluster and Cloud Environments
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Cho, Kyungwoon; Seo, Jinwoo; Kang, Joon; Lee, Jinung; Kim, Sangjin; Park, Jinwoo; Song, Jiyoung; Kim, Jungwhan; Kwon, Daesuk
- Source
- 2014 7th International Conference on Control and Automation Control and Automation (CA), 2014 7th Conference on. :6-11 Dec, 2014
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Rendering (computer graphics)
Servers
Three-dimensional displays
Synchronization
Animation
Cloud
Cluster
Hybrid Render Farm
- Language
In this article, we present a hybrid render farm which can accommodate cloud-based rendering servers to extend the rendering capacity of a local cluster render farm. A rendering workload in real world tends to highly fluctuate so a seamless execution environment for overloaded jobs is a strong demand from post-production. However, running a rendering job on a remote cloud has a few challenging issues: input data synchronization and complex infrastructure management. Our proposed Render Verse can overcome mentioned hurdles with an application-aware caching scheme coupled with a repository and a hierarchical server node management.