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Thinkbox Software – DeadlineCompute Management: Rendering at Cloud Scale
Mike OwenDeveloper - Thinkbox Software UK
"Deadline from Thinkbox Software has been reliable, stable and extremely customizable, handling our render farm at IKEA Communications AB since 2013"
- Sebastian Ek, Render Wrangler at IKEA Communications AB
IKEA Renders managed by DEADLINE
75% of Magazine is CGI, no Photos
DEADLINE - Client Pipeline @
http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/building_3d_with_ike
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DEADLINE - Components2 software installers – Deadline Repo/DB and Deadline Client
Deadline Repository & MongoDB
• Consists of a MongoDB database and a shared file server -
//your/file/server
• One Repository per render farm.
Deadline Client
• Includes the Slave, Monitor and Pulse applications.
• Slaves run on the render nodes to control the rendering process.
• Monitor is used to view render jobs and render nodes.
• Client applications connect directly to the Mongo database and file server.
Monitor
DEADLINE - Jigsaw
FTrack, Shotgun, NIM, in-house system
SCM – Salt, Puppet, CF Engine, Chef, SCCM
IT Monitoring systems – Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss
Python Scripting API
RESTful HTTP API
Python Standalone API
Command Line access
DEADLINE - Integration
A recent poll of 125 VFX studios around the world demonstrated the interest in moving compute [rendering, simulation] to the cloud:
Source: Shotgun Software Blog: http://blog.shotgunsoftware.com/2015/04/90-second-beer-poll-cloud-rendering.html
DEADLINE - Cloud Rendering?
REMOTE
OfficeLOCAL Office
Database &
Repository
CLOUD Region(on demand)
Pop-Up Cloud
APIRender anywhere!
Take advantage of public
and private clouds.
No vendor lock-in.
No middle-man fees.
No restrictions on your
pipeline.
Public Cloud
Deadline BalancerLaunches and Terminates VM Instances based on demand.
Launching and terminating VM instances by hand is tedious.
Saves on cost, disabling and enabling.
Balance across different AWS regions.
Pluggable (Python ) Balancing Algorithm.
eu-central-1
VM instance
VM instance
VM instance
VM instance
VM instance
eu-west-1
VM instance
VM instance
VM instance
Local and Amazon render nodes in the
same render farm
Local and Amazon render nodes
working on the same job
Connected to SSL Proxy Server
Usage Based Licenses
Buy in bundles of Pre-Paid Hours
Render in Minutes
Minutes consumed whilst Slave renders
3rd Party SDK - Select Partners
Info – www.deadlineondemand.com
Store - store.thinkboxsoftware.com
Deadline VMX ImprovementsImproved budget and cap flexibility.
Budgets based on amount to spend per day, per month, number of
concurrent cloud instances.
Support for AWS Spot Instances
AWS Cloud Formation TemplatesCreate an entire Deadline render farm infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
Create AWS Cloud render nodes to connect to an existing on premise Deadline render farm.
Automated Asset TransferBuild asset awareness into Deadline jobs.
Jobs won’t render until all assets are available.
Missing assets will be automatically transferred.
Future Features
