Hi,

Yesterday I was watching a webinar regarding rendering. The speaker said that he is doing network rendering. He was using 24Cores CPU and 2 AMD machines at backend.

I have heard a lot about network rendering and rendering farms.
I was wondering that how network rendering is setup and what are the requirements for it and how much will it cost?

Thanks.

3D Software + X amount of machines is the simple answer.

I use 3DS Max and Vray myself. I could network render with it as the licenses provide up to 1000 networked machines, but I use a render farm instead and charge it to the client.

As for the spec of the network machines obviously the more power the better, but I'd research the exact details.

What is your current set-up?

I am currently owning just one machine with core i7 processor with 8 cores. I recently rendered a file which took around 2.5hrs for complete render. I want this task to speed a little, as I was researching for network renders I found that people use one machine and network it with others and use all their power to render things.

I do not want to contact rendering farms right now, instead was planning to get 1 high performance CPU or whatever required to speed up my processes. I was wondering that how much can it cost me and what will be the configuration of the machine.