Render Node

[mtanasiewicz]

Hello,

I'm currently on my way to buy a powerful rendernode for rendering animations in Corona. I'm considering a double CPU motherboard with 2x Intel Xeon e5-2690 v 3. I need it to occupy as small space as possible, be fast and price efficient so any multiple units with i7s is not an option. Have anyone rendered on those xeon's in Corona? And How about Corona's scalability with so many Cores? It will be 24 physical and 48 logical Cores, is Corona able to harvest this power to maximum? Thanks in advance for any valuable information.

Best regards

[Ondra]

yes, it is reported to work great. It is approximately 4.5 times faster than quadcore haswell i7

[mtanasiewicz]

Great to hear. Right now I have 3 units with 3930K @ 4GHz. On Paper it should be a bit faster then all the i7s

Thanks

[Juraj]

Works perfectly well, lot of Corona users run this setup.

For example my 2680v2 is slightly faster than my 3x 4930k when not overclocking them.

[mtanasiewicz]

On it's way :D And here my first animation entirely in Corona:

[maru]

The two things which bothered me were compression and dancing fireflies. Other than that - it's really great. It must have been a ton of hard work.

[mtanasiewicz]

Yep, those dancing fireflies. I get them all the time whenever I try to render animation with sun visible in the sky. The material setup is based on Corona tutorials, so I don't really know why do I get those errors. It seems like there is a problem only on reflection pass. Direct and Indirect are clean.

I'm not a compression specialist, actually it is the first time I've compressed a video so pardon me :P

[maru]

You could try disabling sun's "visible in reflection" option if it doesn't look very unrealistic then.
This could also be a nice test scene for the new Corona with denoising...