GreenButton has turbocharged LuxRender with Microsoft Azure

[GreenButton]

GreenButton - your personal (super) computer announces launch of Luxrender now powered by the Microsoft Azure platform.

In a few weeks time, we will be launching our new plug-in and rendering service for LuxRender, running on Microsoft’s new Azure platform. What’s cool and exciting about this, is that we have worked out how to tile or chop-up a single image into many pieces, and then have these sent to many cores in Azure for rapid processing. After processing your job across 100’s of cores, (if not 1000’s) we then magically reassemble them to create your final image in record time. Our previous plugin could not do this, and now we think, that we have created the fastest rendering service commercially available for luxrender!

Running on Azure, we have effectively limitless power and capacity to run your job. Clearly, having access to all this power isn’t dirt cheap BUT we will be offering several options that should fit your price point. Our first offering which coincides with this new launch, will be based a “shared pool” of cores that will be sitting there available for a fixed low monthly fee of USD$19.95. This means that you can run as many jobs as you like during that month, and then get access to as many cores are there are available.

If you are interested in getting a trial, we still have room for beta users so join this specific mailing list and we will let you know - https://www.greenbutton.net/pages/betagroup

[Carbonflux]

Heh, I admit thats a really good pitch

At some point I do feel like rendering needs to transition to the cloud, its quite hard in a way to keep up with hardware changes, 4 core, 8, 12, etc, add in the gpu and it seems like a endless upgrade process.

I admit I can't decide what is more cost effective, a personal cpu/gpu render farm or using a 3rd party render farm.

Anyway, this is really tempting, thanks for adding lux to the apps you support, clearly this took some effort.

[GreenButton]

Thanks Carbonflux for the response =)

I like the point you made about keeping up with hardware changes, this is an endless process/problem. The great thing for you guys is by using GreenButton you offload this problem off on to us! But lucky for us we can easily accommodate for any these issues through the use of the Microsoft Azure platform.

GreenButton is really cost effective in this aspect, if you have a personal cpu/gpu render farm you will have to maintain and upgrade it.

Hope you joined our beat tester program so you can give our service a test for free.

Thanks for you interest in GreenButton.

If you have any other questions, just ask =)

[pciccone]

Hi Greenbutton.
Sounds interesting but I'm concerned about the Microsoft connection. I'm not familiar with "Azure", but MS has a long history of not supporting anything but Windows. I'm on a Mac and Linux. Is your offering going to work for non-Windows customers?

Thanks in advance.