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Pixar's Render Farm

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382 points brundolf | 1 comments | 02 Jan 21 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.335s | source
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nom ◴[02 Jan 21 20:39 UTC] No.25616292[source]▶
Oh man, I wanted this to contain much more details :(

Whats the hardware? How much electric energy goes into rendering a frame or a whole movie? How do they provision it (as they keep #cores fixed)? They only talk about cores, do they even use GPUs? What's running on the machines? What did they optimize lately?

So many questions! Maybe someone from Pixar's systems department is reading this :)?

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1. dahart ◴[02 Jan 21 21:41 UTC] No.25616803[source]▶
> They only talk about cores, do they even use GPUs?

They’ve been working on a GPU version of RenderMan for a couple of years.

https://renderman.pixar.com/news/renderman-xpu-development-u...