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RenderDrive is a network renderer designed for higher volume or a departmental need for ray tracing.
While ray tracing means great images, it also means enormous render times, consequently ray tracing is often dismissed as impractical. RenderDrive makes ray tracing a real world option: it is a high quality ray tracer, designed to render images at speeds that will more than satisfy your time budgets. RenderDrive means unsurpassed image quality; fast.
Ultimate Performance
RenderDrive is ART's high end solution and offers the maximum 3D rendering performance -with a capacity in excess of 30 million polygons and a rendering speed that far surpasses any software ray tracing solution.
RenderDrive
RenderDrive is a network renderer designed for higher volume or a departmental need for ray tracing. The RenderDrive 6400 series has been developed using custom hardware alongside our dedicated ray tracing processors to deliver a powerful, flexible and reliable rendering environment that can be used independently or operated as a dedicated render farm.
RenderDrive has a TCP/IP Fast Ethernet network interface enabling the appliance to be accessed by multiple users. Its web based job shceduling and management tools takes rendering load away from 3D workstations enabling users to continue modeling tasks without the burden of background rendering. A RenderMan compliant scene-data interface provides an industry-standard interface that is application independent.
The RenderDrive 6400 is available with 16, 32 or 48 AR350 ray tracing processors. Ray tracing performance increases with the number of dedicated processors you have available however an ideal configuration will depend on a number of factors including the number, size and format of jobs and users accessing the renderer. It could be that a number of smaller specification RenderDrives could prove a better solution than a single 48 chip. Up to 8 RenderDrive units can be linked together to give the ultimate ray trace rendering performance.
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Together with ART's RenderPipe for Maya plug-in, RenderPipe MAX for 3dsmax or VIZ or RenderPipe Catia software, RenderDrive completes a very high performance Network based 3D rendering system.
Why RenderDrive?
Why RenderDrive?
Ray tracing is simply the most accurate method of rendering yet devised and properly implemented, ray tracing effectively mimics the real world - lighting, materials and cameras behave predictably and intuitively.
While ray tracing means great images, it also means enormous render times, consequently ray tracing is often dismissed as impractical. RenderDrive makes ray tracing a real world option: it is a high quality ray tracer, designed to render images at speeds that will more than satisfy your time budgets. RenderDrive means unsurpassed image quality; fast.
For the first time the image you want to create can be achieved in the real world of impossible production deadlines. No compromises with image quality. Predictable results. Maximum performance. RenderDrive is the only real solution in 3D rendering.
Ultimate Performance
RenderDrive is ART's high end solution and offers the maximum 3D rendering performance -with a capacity in excess of 30 million polygons and a rendering speed that far surpasses any software ray tracing solution.
