render farm for simulation?

[fraggle]

Hello,
is there a render farm provider where we can submit a simulation prepare with phoenix FD?
Is Phoenix FD simulation capable of using a render farm to speed up the calcul?

Rebus for example, did not support phoenix FD.

Thanks

[Morbid Angel]

simulation is sequential, so it can't be distributed into frames. Single grid can't be segmented between machines either from what I read, its a lot of data to transfer between the cpu and ram, even that slows down the simulation to only utilize some of the cores on the single system.

With that said, houdini has a functionality to distribute a sim over network, so I believe it may be possible I haven't seen it work personally.

[fraggle]

Thanks, so what this doc is referring to? It is not for the simulation?
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...ner+Simulation

I asked Rebusfarm and ranchcomputer, both tolad me that no simulation can be done on the farm.

THanks

[flipbook]

You can submit simulations to the farm, but still only runs on one node. Means you can send a sim off and still work on your local machine.

[fraggle]

I wonder how the studio are dealing with 10 minute simulation, they can't wait for on machine to get the job done for several days or week.

[Morbid Angel]

I wonder how the studio are dealing with 10 minute simulation, they can't wait for on machine to get the job done for several days or week.

Yup. That's how they deal with it. Sometimes its better to split up into containers, if you have multiple smoke sims and sim each one separately. But there is no distributed sim as you think like DR rendering.