A
Dedicated Cinema 4D Render Farm
Archiform 3D is now offering it's render
farm as a service
to fellow Cinema 4D users. With over 150 CPUs of available
power, loaded with the complete Studio package and QuickTime,
this farm cuts through animations like a hot knife through
butter.
Our render farm
blasts through high definition video 24 hours a day 7 days
a week. It's also located in downtown Miami USA and connected
to a high-speed fibre internet connection, giving blistering
fast upload and download speeds to anywhere in the world.
For a small studio that doesn't have the space, time or
budget for a render farm our own setup may be just what
you need to deliver that job on time.
What's installed?
We are currently running 64 bit Cinema 4D 11.5+ with the
following options:
- Advanced Render
- Mocca
- MoGraph
- Thinking Particles
- Hair
- Dynamics
- Sketch and Toon
- QuickTime
Our Hardware
We have an Xserve running net render and driving 64 bit
Windows clients. The current combined power of the farm
is just over 450 Ghz. Can you imagine if you had that at
your disposal?
What do we Charge?
We charge US $450 for each 24 hour block, so you use
it a day at a time, exclusively. That comes to around 12c/Ghz
hour and you only need to invest day by day. You get an
account on the render farm so you can watch the process
and control job priorities as you see fit. We will also
give you a direct line into your user folder so you can
upload, download and modify as you please. If you dont
know how to do that then just tell us and we will handle
it.
If you have a Core2 Quad running at 2.6 Ghz (10.4 total
Ghz), 1000 frames to process, and it's taking 1 hour per
frame (1000 hours, or 41 days of your client barking at
you) then it's likely we will do it in 22 hours and it
will cost you just $450. You get paid 40 days sooner and
your client still loves you.
The rate will change in time as we grow the farm, but
that also means you will be able to cut through work a
lot faster too.
Who do you share it with?
Nobody. When you have access it is just you. Be greedy,
it's your right to be.
How fast is our Internet Connection?
You need to get that job through quickly and you will
be pleased to know that our connection is not likely to
be the cause of any slowdown. We can take your job in at
up to 2.8 megabytes per second and deliver it at 1.3 megabytes
oer second. So if your project is a tidy 100 Mb (and your
connection is fast enough) you could drop it on our farm
in just under 36 seconds. You can download 100MB of results
in less than 80 seconds.
We are NOT interested in delivering jobs any other way,
so FEDEX and snail-mail is not on the program. We are a
digital service and keep it that way.
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