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

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

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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

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

25. Windows Azure Compute – Worker Roles Windows Azure Storage Event Queue Role Lifecycle Table On-Premise Process Monitor Event Viewer RoleIdStatusFramesTime 192938 Running 34 2:08:23 192939 Running 30 2:07:03 192940 Running 35 2:03:28 192941 Running 31 2:00:56 192942 Running 29 1:58:17 Monitoring 256 Worker Roles

26. Global Windows Azure Bootcamp – April 27th

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