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Render Affordably and Flexibly with Your Own Render Servers
With your own render farm, you can render your projects flexibly and affordably on your premises. Render servers pay for themselves after just 2–3 render jobs compared with expensive and inflexible internet render farms. There are various servers for your render farm, whether CPU rendering or GPU rendering, quiet render servers for the workplace or 19-inch devices for the server cabinet. Here you will find a comparison of servers for your render farm.
And if you need rendering power at short notice for an urgent project, simply rent additional render servers from as little as EUR 79 per week. On this website you can rent render servers that can be delivered quickly.
Ready Configured for All Common Renderers
Save valuable time and do not struggle with cumbersome configuration and complicated network settings. The CADnetwork® RenderCube® family is already preconfigured for the most common renderers such as Autodesk 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Maya®, Mental Ray®, V-Ray®, Cinema 4D® Teamrender, Octane®, Arnold® and many more. The RenderCubes are fully compatible with Windows or Mac networks. Here you will find a list of all compatible network renderers.
What Exactly Is a Render Farm? And What Advantages Does It Bring Me?
With render servers, you have the option of distributing your render jobs to other devices on the network. This means that several computers render an image or animation and thus drastically accelerate the rendering time. It is also possible to free your workstation completely from rendering and use only the devices on the network, so that your workstation is free for other tasks. The prerequisite for accelerating render jobs with a render server is a renderer that supports network rendering or distributed rendering. Almost every renderer today has this. Download the free network rendering ebook to find out whether network rendering is right for you. And how you can accelerate your renderings. In the render-farm ebook, you will find valuable instructions and practical examples from freelancers, agencies and large VFX studios.
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Which Render Server Is the Right One?
To find the right render server for your own production, the devices can be divided into two categories:
Which processors (GPU / CPU) does the renderer use?
Does the renderer use CPUs for calculation or GPUs? Some renderers even support both processor types; this is then called hybrid rendering.
The installation location: Where will the servers be installed?
Will the devices be installed at the workplace or in the office and need to be quiet? Or should 19-inch rack servers be used in the server cabinet?
Here you will find a render-server selection guide to determine the right render server for your environment.
Render Servers for CPU Rendering
CADnetwork® RenderCube® – Quiet render cube for the desk
CADnetwork® RenderCube® Rack – 2U rack server with dual Xeon
CADnetwork® Rendernode R30 – 1U rack server with dual Xeon
CADnetwork® Rendercluster R60 – Complete 176-core render cluster in 2U
Render Servers for GPU Rendering
CADnetwork® RenderCube® GPU – Quiet render cube with up to 2x GPUs
CADnetwork® RenderCube® Rack GPU – Rack server with up to 4x GPUs
CADnetwork® Rackserver G48 – Rack server with up to 8x GPUs
Here you will find further information and can obtain free advice on render servers and render farms:
CADnetwork GmbH
Personal advice: +49 2236 39 379 – 10
www.cadnetwork.de
info@cadnetwork.de
