Is it possible to use Deadline in a cloud based environment? Does anyone have experience with that?
We don’t have any direct experience with using Deadline in a cloud (although it’s something we’ve thinking a lot about lately), but it should definitely be possible with the current version of Deadline. The direct approach would probably be to create a cloud VM with Deadline and your rendering applications/plugins installed, and all licensing and data/asset transferring would be done over a VPN connection. Using Pulse would be a must, since that would greatly improve the performance of the cloud slaves when they’re querying for a job, but there is still the obvious bottle neck of asset transferring over the VPN.
Cheers,
- Ryan