2009-05-26

LuxRender performance on AWS

Just plyaing around with LuxRender on a small Blender 2.48 testscene. On my laptop, which has a Core 2 Duo 2,2Ghz, I get about 22k samples/s. Using a "High-CPU Extra Large Instance" AWS instance I get between 120 and 300k. Average seems to be about 10 times higher than for my laptop, which is nice enough. These cost 0.8$ per instance-hour, which is pretty decent for shorter jobs. I'm not sure about the bandwidth needed, luxrender does transmit the "film" every now and then but the interval can be tweaked.

Scaling this up by using more instances is also very easy.

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