Render Verse: Hybrid Render Farm for Cluster and Cloud Environments

In this article, we present a hybrid render farm which can accommodate cloud-based rendering servers to extend the rendering capacity of a local cluster render farm. A rendering workload in real world tends to highly fluctuate so a seamless execution environment for overloaded jobs is a strong demand from post-production. However, running a rendering job on a remote cloud has a few challenging issues: input data synchronization and complex infrastructure management. Our proposed Render Verse can overcome mentioned hurdles with an application-aware caching scheme coupled with a repository and a hierarchical server node management.