Using Amazon EC2 to speed up Lighting?

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I was wondering if it is possible to speed up Lighting calculations using the Amazon EC2 cloud servers?

I imagine that if you have an Amazon server in the cloud which is accessible by your local Swarm Manager then it will automatically add a cloud-based swarm client to the cluster.

As far as I can see the two issues are:*
1)******The swarm client being able to run on Windows Server
2)******Having enough bandwidth to transfer the assets up and the results back down.Has anyone tried using Amazon’s EC2 with Swarm? Does anyone know what sort of network connection is needed?

2

There’s probably a way to do it, people have been setting up render farms like that for 3D programs, but I wouldn’t know what’s involved.

3

What would be the use case for this? Cinematics? Or single player game or VR game?

4

Big games usually have a render farm for this. Building lighting on a finished level on a single machine could take several days, so by using a render farm you could get it done much faster which would be very good for production.

5

For the connection, you can set up a VPN to make the Amazon servers and your computer in a virtual LAN.
I think the most problematic part is the bandwidth.