http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5904-render-muvizu-using-virtual-machines-aws-azure.aspx Forum - How Do I ...? - Render Muvizu using virtual machines (AWS, Azure) - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:38:13 GMT Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:38:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5904-render-muvizu-using-virtual-machines-aws-azure.aspx
I know top end animation software has a workflow pipeline built in but I'm afraid Muvizu does not and you would have to do this manually.]]> Fri, 02 Sep 2016 06:38:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5904-render-muvizu-using-virtual-machines-aws-azure.aspx
Overview:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-n-series-preview-availability/
http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/04/microsoft-azure-releases-n-series-gpu-instances-in-preview/


Tutorial:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/videos/build-2016-introduction-to-nvidia-gpus-in-azure/
edited by CloudNinja on 01/09/2016]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:49:39 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5904-render-muvizu-using-virtual-machines-aws-azure.aspx
@ukBerty - what do you recommend as the min & max/best GPU for the VMs?

thanks as always,
.cn]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:29:54 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5904-render-muvizu-using-virtual-machines-aws-azure.aspx
The trouble is that Muvizu would have to be installed remotely in the cloud. I run a couple of RDS systems and anything graphical starts to really lag - even Internet Explorer/Chrome is noticeably slower to scroll around if your bandwidth is a bit limited - so you would never have enough bandwidth for the heavy graphical interface within Muvizu.

However you could run Muvizu locally to edit and then upload the .set file to the cloud and open it there to render.

The trouble is you're then relying on the GPU of your VM at AWS or wherever, and I bet their not as good as the one I have in my PC as that's not really what AWS is for (I may be wrong on this point, but I bet I'm not - maybe you can buy additional GPU).

Ultimately you're probably better off spending a bit more money on your graphics card and going to make a cup of tea.....]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:01:10 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5904-render-muvizu-using-virtual-machines-aws-azure.aspx (then let us know how it worked!)

sounds exciting... and it also sounds like you know how to make it happen. That's a good combination! ;-)]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:58:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5904-render-muvizu-using-virtual-machines-aws-azure.aspx
The advantage would be using a faster, remote resource that allows you to keep working on other projects with your primary machine as well as saving tons of time as you could "spin up" multiple VMs to do parallel rendering of multiple scenes...

Has anyone done this?

Any recommendations?

I guess I could take the MZU specs, map them to an appropriate AWS or Azure VM, remotely install MZU onto the VMs and render away :0)...

thoughts?
.cn]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:44:55 GMT