The favorite of the design industry--Cloud rendering

3D rendering is an extremely important step in the work, whether it is for the staff in the design position or the professional design company. After the rendering, the design works to show its closest to the real world state.

But because rendering is essentially a processing of large amounts of data, rendering this work requires very high computer hardware. Personal design workers often equipped with a high-performance computer mainframe, design or film-and-television enterprises choose to set up high-performance servers to meet demand.

Usually the effect and speed of rendering depend on graphics processing performance of graphics card, the computer with high-end graphics card will greatly improve the work efficiency. However, with the development of film and television, games, animation and other industries, whether it is the audience or producers, the demand for graphics quality is also more and more high, such a pace of development is sometimes not friendly to the design industry, individuals to bear the cost of frequent updating of hardware, enterprises need more updates and maintenance costs.

So is there any good solution? The "cloud rendering" generated by the increasingly hot cloud computing technology in recent years may have opened a new path for the industry.

Moving applications from the computer to the network, run by a supercomputer cluster, requires the user terminal to have access to the desired application via the web-the concept of "cloud computing". It is widely believed that the application of cloud computing is mainly office Office software, e-mail, instant messaging, multimedia playback, etc., but AMD has put forward a new concept at CES: "Cloud rendering", that is, the heavy 3D rendering also moved to the Internet. After this idea was put forward, it immediately attracted the attention of the outside world.

"Cloud rendering" mode is similar to conventional cloud computing, the 3D program is placed on the remote server rendering, the user terminal through the Web software or directly in the local 3D program click on a "cloud rendering" button and access to resources through high-speed Internet connection, instructions from the user terminal, The server executes the corresponding rendering task according to the instruction, and the rendering result screen is transmitted back to the user terminal for display. Simply put, users can upload resources from various terminals such as mobile phones, pads, and PCs, rendering them in the cloud, and then getting rendering results.

The advent of cloud rendering has several advantages:

1. Cloud rendering has elastic resources like cloud computing that users can pay on demand. Users who need high-definition, full-effect rendering can buy more computing resources, while those with limited budgets can choose a relatively low-quality rendering to save costs.

2. Cloud rendering allows users to get rid of their dependence on geography and equipment. Usually high-end configuration of the host or server need to have a fixed location, but cloud rendering relies on cloud computing technology, can let users no matter where they are, can be connected through the terminal (PC, mobile phone, pad, etc.) to work at any time.

3. Addressing transnational and cross-regional cooperation issues. Currently in the design of a variety of large equipment, has been widely used in 3D technology, but because the design department of multinational companies are often distributed in many countries and regions, to work together to require the cost and time to reduce efficiency. Using cloud rendering instead is a good solution to these problems.

Although cloud computing has so many advantages, the current technology for cloud rendering is at a rapid stage of development and is facing problems such as software compatibility, network outages, and rendering stops. But as technology matures, cloud rendering will be like cloud computing, advancing the development and transformation of the design industry and bringing about the evolution of productivity.

The favorite of the design industry--Cloud rendering