#Zync renderman update#

At the same time, the 60 second signal is too short for the handful of customers that needed to perform some sort of automated drain or failover action. The most important thing we learned is that the current 60 second pre-migration signal is overkill for the vast majority of customers. The graph also shows that we didn't always get it right, and we've learned a lot from working closely with the handful of customers whose applications just don't play well with live migration. The 99th percentile blackout graph is too noisy to display nicely, but we've improved that by a factor of six in the last year as well. We've done millions of live migrations in the last year and as you can see from the graph, we've made significant improvements to median blackout duration and variance. The vast majority of customers and workloads have been able to go about their business without noticing our maintenance events, with a few exceptions.Ī picture is worth 1,000 words and the following graph shows the improvements we've made to live migration blackout times (the amount of time your VM is paused) over the last year ( note the log scale): Our customer base has grown exponentially in the past year, and brought with it a lot of new and interesting workloads to test the mettle of our live migration technology.

It’s also an important differentiator for our platform compared to other cloud providers.

#Zync renderman update#

It's been a little over a year (and millions of migrations) since the last time we talked about our live migration technology and how we use it to keep your virtual machines humming along while we patch, repair and update the software and hardware infrastructure that powers Google Compute Engine. Terms of the deal and the purchase price have not been disclosed.Posted by Scott Van Woudenberg, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform But we most especially want to thank our customers, our partners in the VFX software industry, and our phenomenal team for getting us to where we are today.' Yes, we are excited, and yes, great things are coming. 'With a friction-free, affordable, and elastic rendering solution, visual designers and artists in the industry can continue to do their best work. 'Pairing this history with the scale and reliability of Google Cloud Platform will help us offer an even better service to our customers - including more scalability, more host packages and better pricing (including per-minute billing),' Zync said in a statement. The company has worked on such blockbusters as Star Trek: Into Darkness, Flight, and Transformers: Dark side of the Moon, and claims to have more than 6.5 million hours of rendering under its belt. Zync, formerly Zero VFX, started out in 2009 as a small rendering studio that farmed out computer processing power to film studios.

For example, with per-minute billing studios aren’t trapped into paying for unused capacity when their rendering needs don’t fit in perfect hour increments.' 'Together Zync + Cloud Platform will offer studios the rendering performance and capacity they need, while helping them manage costs. Many studios, however, don’t have the resources or desire to create an in-house rendering farm, or they need to burst past their existing capacity,' said Belwadi Srikanth, product manager for Google Cloud Platform, which will absorb Zync. 'Creating amazing special effects requires a skilled team of visual artists and designers, backed by a highly powerful infrastructure to render scenes. Google has confirmed its gobble of Zync, a cloud-based special effects rendering service.