“If you wanted a 1000 GPUs on a single process, Octane scales linearly with each GPU you added,” explains Jules Urbach, OTOY chief executive officer. This will allow, when released, users to render on one local Kepler card or on as many GPU farm processors as they like. This is a custom built specialist GPU farm using Nvidia GPUs, this is not a front to a third party farm from say Amazon or some other primary CPU farm provider.
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The product is launching on Kepler cards, but the cloud solution will allow offline rendering in the cloud, and the company has invested heavily in a GPU cloud render farm. While Octane runs on the PC, the company is moving to a new cloud solution. OTOY has four main offices – two in LA (including LightStage), and two in New Zealand. Most of the development continues in New Zealand. Octane started life in New Zealand and its original founder Terrence Vergauwen remains central to its development. It was designed from the ground up to tap into the massive – and cheap - computational and rendering power on recent consumer GPUs. This is why Octane Render is so much faster than CPU-based rendering systems. None of the gains OTOY are currently showing would have been viable on consumer GPUs prior to 2010. OTOY also owns LightStage, LLC in Burbank which did the facial scanning for The Avengers, among other films, and Paul Debevec is their “chief scientific consultant”.Ĭlearly these guys know what they are doing. The company has strong links to cloud computing and graphics research. It is the first commercially available unbiased renderer to work exclusively on the GPU, and runs exclusively on Nvidia’s CUDA technology. OTOY sells Octane as a stand alone renderer as well as a plugin to popular 3D applications such as Max and Maya. Octane Render is a real-time 3D unbiased rendering application that was started by the New Zealand company Refractive Software. The product, now released and out of beta, is creating quite a stir for its remarkable GPU-based rendering. OTOYs Octane renderer was previewed in fxguide’s Art of Rendering article in the middle of last year.
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