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High-performance computing on cloud services ® 3ds Max / CG Rendering Services The service to provide the photorealistic images via the super computer of FOCUS Price : Ask quatation Release April, 2013 UC-win Series / Support Service

Introduction

This service provides a photorealistic image via super computer of FOCUS (Foundation for Computational Science). Photorealistic image is an image which is a strong resenblance to the realistic photo and can be created by performing a large amount of calculation according to the physical equation in a real life. This can be used for various kind of things such as review, presentation, publication, marketing in the stage of planing and designing the cars and parts as well as the verifing the design of BIM model for architecture and interior coordination.

About LuxRender

LuxRender is adopted as the rendering engine providing the photorealistic image. LuxRender is one of the freeware rendering software. Rendering engine via ray tracing simplyfies the equation of reflection of light for speeding it up, however, LuxRender uses the physical equation as it is and uses the wave length of light, not RGB, for color. Realistic image can be obtained by the material setting which is relatively easy, on the other hand, it might take a few days for rendering a still image in a usual PC since rendering speed is very slow. Figure 1 Example of LuxRender rendering

High-speed rendering via FOCUS

It needs a lot of time to calculate via LuxRender, so it is possible to speed up parallel computation by using several PC. In general, the PC cluster for CG rendering is called "Render Farm". Parallel computation of LuxRender standard allows to speed up from about 20 to 30 times as during rendering on a single PC, however, the speed decreases as a little over the number of PC, 50 and cannot ask for more speeding up (in case of a still image). Furthermore, the various kinds of know-how is required for creating those environment. FORUM8 created the speed-up and easy-to-use render farm on super computing which is set in FOCUS. It now allows high-speed rendering which is about 50 times as much as FOCUS 1 node by originally remodeling the highly parallel execution to LuxRender (The speed is according to simultaneously parallel number.). By this high-speed rendering, the time which usually takes about 1 week can be reduced to about 2 hours for the actual rendering time. Figure 2 1000 seconds rendering result in 100 node parallel via super computer in FOCUS

Future development

From current situation, it is possible to speed up by increasing the number of computers, so we will consider this in an environment in which the highly concurrent is possible of K etc. from now on. Reference service price (tax is not included.) Basic cost (operating cost) 5,0000 yen 1-3 rendering 10,000 yen/1 rendering 4 - 20 7,500 yen/1 rendering 21 - 50 5,,000 yen/1 rendering 51 - 200 2500 yen/1 rendering 201 - 1,000 1,500 yen/1 rendering More than 1,001 1,300 yen/1 rendering Reference example)   Price for 5 rendering (tax is not included) : 3x10,000+2x7,500+50,000=95,000 yen   Price for 100 redering (tax is not included) : 3x10,000+17x7,500+30x5,000+50x2,500+50,000=48,2500 yen

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