San Francisco still struggles with fiber... why didn't 'Google Fiber' come here first? :) Many thousands of dollars per month... if you are using it or not. If they did metering like power bills maybe that cost wouldn't be so scary.
We have played a little bit with Zync and talked directly with some Google product managers about using it. Internet speed and connectivity is still a hurdle but it is also something we are considering if we need to scale. Good point about the AC bill, one reason why GPU rendering can actually be expensive. Those things can get hawwt and really suck some juice. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Simon van de Lagemaat < [email protected]> wrote: > Fiber should be pretty cheap in most major cities by now, if not it will > be soon. I think the most difficult part of cloud rendering is that unless > you're on a service like Zync you really need a couple of pipeline/IT guys > to work out your imaging, mounting and data transfer tech and strategies. > There's also a whole host of other issues like your distance to the nearest > data center and whether or not you have a PoP to them. This can all affect > whether you mount those cloud machines or treat as offsite and off network > entities etc etc. It's all about latency. > > That said Google does provide some pretty decent instructional media to > guide you, they are really trying hard to make cloud rendering a reality > for most people. I think it's going to be up to AD to decide how they want > to deal with burst licensing. Right now with Arnold it's pretty much rent > and serve your own but I suspect that will change. > > We're not planning on rendering everything in the cloud to start but will > instead leave it for OMG moments or to avoid compromising on quality in > order to deliver on time etc. If the cost–benefit analysis works I could > see letting our farm slowly age out and just focus on local storage and > possibly replace the rack space with workstations using pcoip. I'm sure > we'll probably keep some local compute boxes however. > > Lots of options! Less air conditioning! > > >
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