Customers can now access expansive compute resources including NVIDIA RTX A5000-A6000 graphic cards for VFX, animation, and motion graphics workloads; check out the demo at SIGGRAPH 2023, running August 6-10 in LA.
Specialized cloud provider CoreWeave has completed its integration with the Conductor cloud-based rendering service, allowing customers to now access CoreWeave compute resources for rendering visual effects, animation, motion graphics, and design projects, including large-scale workloads requiring GPU acceleration. CoreWeave purchased Conductor this past January.
Visit CoreWeave’s booth (#122) at SIGGRAPH for a demo of the new integration - SIGGRAPH 2023 runs August 6-10 at the LA Convention Center.
“Using cloud-based resources over purchasing hardware provides perpetual access to the latest computing technology without the cost overhead,” said Mac Moore, CoreWeave Head of M&E. “However, while GPU rendering is becoming increasingly important for content production rendering workloads, it's challenging to find performant cloud-based GPU availability. CoreWeave is one of the only cloud providers offering NVIDIA RTX A5000 and A6000 cards, ensuring the artist’s local experience accurately translates to the cloud. With CoreWeave compute now supported, Conductor users ultimately have more flexibility; they can access the resources they need on demand and at a price point that fits their budget and production schedules.”
“Conductor is a great solution that has worked really well for us, especially when we needed that extra push to find resources quickly across various data centers,” shared Brainstorm Digital founder and VFX supervisor Rich Freidlander. “Now, we’re fully cloud-based on CoreWeave, and the fusion of these two technologies on the backend is an exciting development that will ultimately help us work faster and more efficiently.”
“When CoreWeave acquired Conductor at the beginning of the year, this integration was our top priority,” added CoreWeave CTO and co-founder Brian Venturo. “Now that we’ve achieved that goal, we look forward to helping our VFX and animation customers take their creative work to the next level. We benchmark tested Conductor on CoreWeave for GPU rendering against the most widely used cloud provider in M&E, and renders returned faster and were less expensive in almost every case, even accounting for the reduced pricing of spare compute.”
- CoreWeave provides on-demand access to NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture, including NVIDIA RTX A5000 cards and NVIDIA RTX A6000 cards.
- CoreWeave resources on Conductor are on-demand, so resources will not be reallocated to higher-paying customers once a job has been initiated.
- With no egress fees to move data between regions or cloud providers, customers using CoreWeave have greater flexibility.
- CoreWeave provides comprehensive GPU options, allowing artists and studios to right-size their instance selections.
In addition to CoreWeave, Conductor is compatible with Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) compute resources. It supports most industry-standard creative applications out-of-the-box, including Adobe After Effects; Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, and Arnold; Blender; Epic Games’ Unreal Engine; Maxon’s Cinema 4D and Redshift; Foundry’s Nuke, Cara VR, Katana, Modo, and Ocula; Chaos Group’s V-Ray; Pixar’s Universal Scene Description, Pixar’s Renderman; Golaem; Bluegfx’s Miarmy; Ephere’s Ornatrix; Boris FX’s Silhouette; and Peregrine Labs’ Yeti.
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Source: CoreWeave
Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network.
