1. Alan Smith Knowit @alansmith www.cloudcasts.net Grid Computng with 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles & Kinect

4. Render Times FilmRender Hours Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 30,000,000 3,400 years Monsters vs. Aliens 40,000,000 5,500 years Some of the frames required for Devastator in Transformers 2 took up to 72 hours.

7. viewpoint { from at up angle 60 resolution 640, 480 aspect 1.6 image_format 0 } light object { disc,, 30 wooden } object { sphere, 1.00 chrome } object { cylinder,, 0.50 chrome }

12. Depth Range Kinect Sensor

16. 267 seconds * 2000 frames = 6 days 4 hours

17. On-Premise Computing Costs NodesCost 1$500 10$5,000 100$50,000 1000$500,000 10,000$5,000,000 Assuming a cost of $500 per node

18. Cloud Computing Costs NodesHoursCost 110,000$1,200 101,000$1,200 100 $1,200 1,00010$1,200 Theoretical compute cost for a 10,000 hour render job

20. Windows Azure Compute – Worker Roles Azure Storage Job Queue Blob Storage Frame Queue On-Premise Animation Creator Process Monitor Encode Queue Depth Images Scene Files Frames Websites Media Services

21. Technologies Used Windows Azure Worker Roles Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Queue, Tables Windows Azure Media Services Windows Azure Websites