Grid Computing with 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles & Kinect Alan Smith March 2013

Alan Developer, Trainer, Mentor, Evangelist Windws Azure MVP Windows Azure Insider From the UK, Living in Stockholm Passionate about ”The Cloud” and the dev community.

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.

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 }

Depth Range Kinect Sensor

267 seconds * 2000 frames = 6 days 4 hours

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

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

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

Windows Azure Compute – Worker Roles Azure Storage Job Queue Blob Storage Frame Queue On-Premise Animation CreatorProcess Monitor Encode Queue Depth Images Scene Files Frames Websites Media Services Table Storage Job Stas Worker Role Stasts

Worker Role Kinect App Animation Job Processing Windows Azure Storage Viewpoint 10,6,0 Light 10,6,7 Light 10,8,-4 Sphere 0,0,0 Cylinder 0,1,0 Windows Azure Storage Viewpoint 10,6,0 Light 10,6,7 Light 10,8,-4 Sphere 0,0,0 Cylinder 0,1,0 Viewpoint 10,6,0 Light 10,6,7 Light 10,8,-4 Sphere 0,0,0 Cylinder 0,1,0 Viewpoint 10,6,0 Light 10,6,7 Light 10,8,-4 Sphere 0,0,0 Cylinder 0,1,0 Viewpoint 10,6,0 Light 10,6,7 Light 10,8,-4 Sphere 0,0,0 Cylinder 0,1,0

Worker Role Render Job Processing Windows Azure Storage Local Storage Viewpoint 10,6,0 Light 10,6,7 Light 10,8,-4 Sphere 0,0,0 Cylinder 0,1,0 PolyRay.exe

Worker Role Encode Job Processing Windows Azure Storage Local Storage VirtualDub.exe Windows Azure Media Services Windows Azure Websites

Windows Azure Compute – Worker Roles Windows Azure Storage Event Queue Role Lifecycle Table On-Premise Process Monitor Event Viewer RoleIdStatusFramesTime Running 34 2:08: Running 30 2:07: Running 35 2:03: Running 31 2:00: Running 29 1:58:17 Monitoring 256 Worker Roles

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