12,500 CPU Cores Were Required To Render Cars 2

As usual, Pixar is pushing boundaries when it comes to the CGI in Cars 2. Making the film required a render farm containing 12,500 CPU cores. And on average, it took 11.5 hours to render a single frame. [CNET]

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    Scott B

    Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM

    I will never complain about my render times ever again.

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    nightFlarer

    Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    That’s crazy, lucky I work with realtime rendering. Though I wouldn’t mind owning a render farm.

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    tay

    Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 7:30 AM

    Um, that’s impossible.11.5 hrs for 1fame? To that’s over 11 days for 1seconds worth at 24 frames a minutes. At 6000 seconds to render in a 100 minute video. Well, that’s a lot of years, or, 66000 days.

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    The Quinn

    Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM

    Um, tay, that’s on AVERAGE.

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      Chris

      Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM

      Also probably rendering more than one image at a time, not using the entire render farm for one image. So 11hrs an image but rendered another 50 along side it

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        Ha

        Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 1:42 AM

        Yes, how many cores does each worker in the farm have?
        If each worker takes 11 hours for one frame, and a worker has say… 16 cores…

        That’s actually 781.25 frames in 11 hours

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