A press release today from Axceleon talks about a new product called “EnFuzion”. EnFuzion allows rendering packages to access the Amazon EC2 Cloud for rendering, making it a powerful tool for facilities that are unwilling or unable to manage a personal render farm.
“EnFuzion with EC2 provides “elastic rendering” within the cloud and changes the economics of rendering by allowing studios and end users to pay only for their usage. This notion of “elastic renderingTM” using EnFuzion decreases the management of a studio’s hardware and software stockpile. The EnFuzion render farm in the cloud shrinks and expands on demand. It can start with one render node and rapidly expand to thousands of render nodes transparently increasing the potential of the render farm within minutes using Amazon’s EC2,” said Mr. Duffy, President and CEO of Axceleon.
And the list of supported applications is pretty impressive too:
EnFuzion3D 2009TM runs natively on all OS platforms (Windows®, Linux®, Mac OS®) and all 64/32-bit hardware platforms. Plug-ins are available for Maya®, 3ds Max®, Toxik®, Softimage®|XSI®, Nuke™, Combustion®, After Effects®, Blender™, mental ray®, Vray®, Turtle™, 3Delight™ and more.
via EnFuzion® Optimizes Image Rendering on Amazon EC2, via InsideHPC .
