C4D Team Render is very inefficient in my experience and is good mostly for animation, not for rendering large still. Last time I use it for an animation with Corona I loose about 40% of the performance of my Threadripper slave.
Actually I do not remember the exact performance over Team Render, I have use for rendering out animation scenes overnight with couple of machines. Redshift/Arnold demands standalone license for each machine, unless if you have a business as a studio you could get an agreement for bulk licenses. Interesting side is if you use Octane for your workflow with any number of Macs there is no cost, you can use each Mac with octane. Because by M1/2 Ultra or max seen as single GPU unit and you can not add another GPU but it is free. On the other side for number of PC's you had to get licenses ( in the past there was render nodes for Octane but I do not know how it works today ) for each of them.
The only imaginery solution is ( for MacOS side ) using number of Macs, 1 of them is master machine and daisy chain other number of macs ( does not important their M1/2 models, air, mini, pro mini, max, ultra can be functional ) as slave GPU's. This is the only way to use MacOS for distributed rendering setup. Which shown by Apple for AI systems with number of Ultra's work as slave GPU's for Master Ultra machine.
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1. How many workloads require metal-optimized software that requires a lot of VRAM and outperforms CUDA-optimized software in terms of performance/price?
Nvidia has taken over the fast cloud computing market. What could Apple offer to take market share away from Nvidia?
How would it work? Would Apple force other developers to use its Extreme-based cloud computing, or would Apple's apps outperform any third-party apps?
I will ask the same question to you for an Extreme chip in a local Mac Pro.
Amazon uses Mac Minis. They're mostly for remote software builds? I don't know. But Amazon does not have anything more than the base SoC. We're talking about Extreme SoCs.
Let's say you have a very large software project. You can build the software much faster with an Extreme SoC. On your local xCode, press the "Cloud Build" button and an Extreme SoC will build it for you in the cloud and then your local machine would download the build.
While it makes sense that Mx Extreme's business viability is tied to cloud computing, I don't see the point of either. The more powerful the SoC, the less competitive advantage Apple Silicon has.
Nimble Studio provides a collaborative environment for small studios using GPU workstations. Why would Amazon use Apple hardware for that purpose?
How many Apple-specific software projects would take advantage of an SoC with more than 24 cores at compile time? Is LLVM so good that it can parallelize compilation on so many cores?
It has more to do with the language.
It would allow someone sitting at a coffee shop using a Macbook Air 15" to compile like an Extreme SoC.
Personally I think some kind of cloud based Xcode sounds awesome, but there is also the famous mail from the Epic lawsuit where someone in Apple asked Craig Federighi about cloud gaming and Craig almost bit his head off saying that Apple is all about providing "high performance local compute" and that streaming apps "might make sense for our competition, but not for Apple"
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