Priority is a price plan you can choose to render a job. You have a choice
of Low, Medium, and High. Each priority offers you a different set of
features and has a different rate. The higher the priority, the faster the
rendering.
Per job limit is the maximum number of nodes you can use in a single
rendering job. If you have mulitple shots or scenes that you need to
render at the same time, each of them can use the number of nodes
available for given priority. For example, you can have:
- job1 - 10 nodes, job2 - 0 nodes etc. (on Low)
- job1 - 25 nodes, job2 - 25 nodes etc. (on Medium)
- job1 - 50 nodes, job2 - 50 nodes etc. (on High)
Total or user limit is the maximum number of nodes you can use in total
at one time for all jobs that are rendering. It is a limit that applies only to
projects rendering on Low priority.
Node is a computer designed and built for network rendering. You can think of it as a specialized server or rendering machine.
OB hour is the basic unit of GPU cost calculation. It is a price for 1 OctaneBench (OB) used in an hour of rendering.
To calculate the cost of a scene, we take the total number of OB points used in one hour of rendering and multiply it by the OB rate.
For example, if your 3D scene took one hour to render on GarageFarm and ten machines carried out the rendering task, the rendering would use a total of 10,000 OB, assuming each machine has 1,000 OB points (10 machines x 1,000 OB = 10,000 OB). Now, we take the 10,000 OB and multiply it by the selected OB rate. Here, we’ll use the Low priority rate, so 10,000 OB x 1h x $0.0025 = $25. Based on this calculation, the cost of rendering such a scene on 10 GPU machines using Low priority would be $25.
NOTE: Machine specs above are provided for illustrative purposes only.
Node hour is just like the OB hour, but it represents the cost for a node (rendering machine), and the rate is usually rounded up. It is a price for 1 hour of rendering on a single GPU node.
Here’s an example:
Let’s suppose you have 50 frames to render. Each frame renders 1h long on GarageFarm, and you choose to render them on Medium Priority.
Assuming Medium Priority costs $2.25 per node hour, therefore:
50 frames x 1h x $2.25 = $112.5
