Big and Ugly Rendering Project
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Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP) is a non-commercial
BURP utilizes the
History
The main BURP website went online on 17 June 2004.
By the end of October enough tests had been done to show that not only is the distributed rendering of 3D animations possible, it can achieve performance that rivals many commercial render farms. The current trend of increasing network bandwidth throughout the world will make it even more powerful. The rest of 2004 was used to improve and develop the website frontend for the system.
Until May 2005, the Linux and Windows clients got major code overhauls and loads of tests were done to estimate and improve performance of several aspects of the data transfer systems. Most importantly, code for a mirrored storage and distribution system for the rendered output started to emerge.
In May 2010, the project entered a
High-frame-rate versions of the film Big Buck Bunny were rendered and released in 2013.[5]
Although many people have contributed to the source code since the start of the project, the majority of the BURP code base remains authored by Janus Kristensen, who continues as the head developer of the software.
Open Rendering Environment (ORE) and Renderfarm.fi
In 2007–2009, the Open Rendering Environment (ORE) project run by the
Upon its opening to a public beta in summer 2009, Renderfarm.fi claimed to be the world's first publicly distributed render farm that advocated the use of Creative Commons licensing.[6] The main BURP project later followed suit and took up a similar licensing scheme.
Although they used similar back-end code, Renderfarm.fi and BURP had some notable differences in the way their front ends worked. For example, Renderfarm.fi used the open source
BURP architecture
The main design idea behind BURP is to use spare CPU cycles on participating computers around the world to render 3D images and animations submitted by the users of the BURP network - in other words to build a large shared render farm that can be freely used by those who also contribute computing power to it.
The fundamental goal of this design is to give users access to computing power to render animations that would take an impossibly long time on a single computer. By dividing the work among hundreds of computers, an animation that takes possibly months to render in CPU time could be completed in only a few days. In tandem with this collaborative approach, BURP hopes to make animations and images public as soon as they are finished so that all participants will be able to see the outcome.
Open by design
When asked about whether the system
Accessibility
While the ORE project researched the possibilities of using BURP for education and business, it became evident that accessibility would be key in reaching users. The development focus within the ORE project soon shifted towards making BURP more accessible. A script for uploading work to a BURP project directly from within the Blender software was created to address these issues. The script lets the user input a rendering task (the file to be rendered as well as additional information), called a "session" through an
Supported render software
See also
External links
- Official website
- BURP source code
- Big Buck Bunny (rendered by BOINC volunteers) Archived 2016-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
References
- ^ "Big and Ugly Rendering Project". burp.renderfarming.net. Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ^ "Licensing of BURP and related components". Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- ^ "iSGTW Link of the week - B.U.R.P". 2008-03-26. Archived from the original on 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- ^ [1] Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, BURP Forum post: "Beta is starting soon", author Janus Kristensen
- ^ "Big Buck Bunny 3D". bbb3d.renderfarming.net. Archived from the original on 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
- ^ [2] Archived 2017-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, "What is Renderfarm.fi?", a video on Youtube. September 2009.
- ^ [3] Archived 2016-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, Renderfarm.fi, BURP and collaborative movie making on AssemblyTV
- ^ [4] Archived 2010-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, Blender 2.5 Extensions, Render scripts: Renderfarm.fi, Wiki.blender.org