15.07.2010 REBUSfarm saved 57.633 kg CO₂ in 2009

Despite our unbeatable prices, we took care of our responsibility to the environment. From our energy partner naturstrom.de we receive green power of 100% renewable energy and achieved 57,633 kg of CO₂ per year. This is our and our clients contribution to climate protection

This effect is comparable to the climate protection of 2882 trees.

For confirmation see here.

July 16th, 2010: REBUSfarm supports Cinema 4D V-ray single frame rendering

From now on REBUSfarm supports Maxon Cinema 4D V-Ray single frame rendering simultan on 800 cores.

The render farm spreads the rendering of a single frame over 100 Dual XEON PCs, equivalent to 800 cores. The rendering of animations is distributed over the whole facility, meaning 3700 GHz or 236 PCs.

July 1st, 2010: REBUSfarm supports modo single frame rendering

From now on REBUSfarm supports Luxology modo single frame rendering. The service is added to the already offered rendering of modo animations.

The render farm spreads the rendering of a single frame over 100 Dual XEON PCs equivalent to 800 cores. The rendering of animations is distributed over the whole facility, meaning 3700 GHz or 236 PCs.

June 12th, 2010: Farminizer 2.0 now also supports Maxwell Render, Modo and Lightwave 3D.

The free software Farminizer, for easy integration of the REBUS render farm into 3D applications, is now available as version 2.0. The update implements additional 3D apps and brings a big bunch of little enhancements for the apps that has been supported already. The Farminizer now supports:

• Autodesk 3ds Max with Vray, Mental Ray, Final Render, Scanline and Distributed Render
• Maxon Cinema 4D with Vray, Advanced Render und Standard Render
• Next Limit Maxwell Render ++ NEW! ++
• Luxology modo ++ NEW! ++
• Newtek Lightwave ++ NEW! ++

Furthermore our Manager Software has been redesigned and a lot of new features and improvements were added. Here's an overview of the main changes:

• Userinterface appr. 8 times faster
• Bulletproof up- and download
• Ability to handle lost or terminated connections
  

November 14th, 2009: REBUSfarm plugged in

REBUSfarm presents a new and unique concept for integrating a render farm into the workflow of the 3D community.

The development of the REBUSfarm Farminizer Software gives the user full access to the power of the render farm inside their 3D application. The REBUSfarm Farminizer plugin checks the project inside the 3D software and makes sure that it conforms to the render farm, allowing an almost seamless connection to the render farm. Ideally, the user notices no difference between rendering locally and rendering on the render farm, except for the well-known speed advantage.

At the moment, 3DS Max and Cinema 4D for PC and MAC are supported. You can download the free REBUSfarm Farminizer Software here.

It is of course still possible to send us projects using FTP.

September 21st 2009: REBUSfarm upgrades to 3700 GHz Computing Power

REBUSfarm extends its machine pool by 70 Dual XEON E5530 (2.40 GHz) with 16 GB RAM. These 140 XEON Quad-Core processors represent the best Intel CPUs currently on the market. The extremely large RAM of 16 GB protects your render-projects from time- and cost-consuming temporary storage on the hard disc drive (swapping).

Altogether our service now offers 3700 GHz (3,7 THz) or 4 mio. cinebench of pure computing power, which makes it the most powerful service of its kind worlwide.

That's why we are extending our Summer Special Deal (for a limited time only)

• free trial, worth 10 EUR.
• Special price of only 9.9 cent / GHzh. Starting from 3.9 cent / GHzh at a 60% discount!

Feel free to test our system. Just create a new account and use the 10 EUR free trial.

August 12th 2009: Summer Special Deal: Free trial for 10 EUR and 3.9 cent /GHzh

Only for a limited time we offer a Summer Special Deal to the 3D community:

• free trial, worth 10 EUR.
• Special price of 9.9 cent / GHzh. Starting from 3.9 cent / GHzh at a 60% discount!

Feel free to test our system. Just create a new account and use the 10 EUR free trial.

August 10th, 2009: Beta testing with Maxwell Render for 50% off

The integration of Maxwell Render into the REBUSfarm reaches beta status. Although the beta version already runs very stable, we cut down the price to our render farm service for the Maxwell community for the time being. This may help to apologize that some errors and bugs that may occur.

In the beginning Maxwell users pay half of the regular price, which is only 4.95 cent / GHzh instead of 9.9 cent /GHzh. Since Maxwell users benefit from the 10 EUR free trial as well, you will get an equivalent of 14 hours render time on a Intel Q6600 for free. Only that you will get it in only a few minutes...

Feel free to test our system. Just create a new account and use the 10 EUR free trial.

August 1st, 2009: Rebusfarm supports now 3D Studio Max 2010 Service Pack 1

We have installed Autodesk 3D Studio Max 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on the REBUSfarm. You will now benefit from the increased rendering performance based upon the new memory management of SP1.

July 10th, 2009: Mental Ray Single-Frame Rendering

REBUSfarm supports now the single-frame rendering of 3D Studio MAX via Mental Ray. Your still image will be rendered with 800 cores. Our systems allows a Final Gather Prepass and supports Render Elements.

11.03.2009 V-Ray Single-Frame Rendering

REBUSfarm supports now the Single-Frame Rendering of 3D Studio MAX with V-Ray. Your stillimage will be rendered with 800 cores. Our systems allows a pre-calculation of the GI solution and supports Render Elements.

August 1st 2008: REBUSfarm reaches a total capacity of 2500GHz

REBUSfarm quadruples its capacity within only a few months, outrunning the competition. Aside from their up-to-date and homogeneous configuration, it is worth mentioning that the capacity is reached with only 182 nodes, reducing network-overhead to a minimum. The rendering-slaves carry

• Dual XEON E5420
• 8192 MB RAM
• ASUS XEON mainboards
• 500 GB HDD

May 1st 2008: New pricing discounts. Rendering from 6.4 cent / GHzh

REBUSfarm introduces a new staggered discount system which offers a discount up to 60% depending on your rendering volume. Based on the number of submitted project-files this quickly leads to substantial discounts on mid- to large-sized rendering projects.

More detailed information on this can be found on our price list. Our online cost calculator already accounts for the new discount system when estimating your projects.

April 21st 2008: Support of the complete e-on Software Vue 6 portfolio

Rebusfarm announces support of the complete e-on Software portfolio. This includes the stand-alone solution Vue 6 Infinite and the integrated solution Vue 6 xStream for 3D Studio MAX, Cinema 4D and Lightwave. Furthermore all contents of the Cornucopia3D database are accesible.

This provides the user with a complete toolset to create high-quality, natural 3D environments.

April 17th 2008: Rendering with Maxwell Render from project files created in 3dsmax and C4D

By continuously enhancing our rendering farm software we are now able to render projects for Maxwell Render directly from the host-applications 3D Studio MAX, Cinema 4D, Softimage XSI and Maya. Lightwave support will be available soon.

What's special about this?

From now on there's no need for our customers to create an MXS-file (Maxwell Scene Format) for every single frame of animation to be rendered. Instead you can simply send us the single project file from the host-application 3D Studio MAX or Cinema 4D. Therefore the tiresome step of exporting up to thousands of files isn't necessary any more. Furthermore the size of the data-upload turns from gigabytes into megabytes. A lot of projects wouldn't be possible without this improvement.

April 10th 2008: Support of finalRender, finalToon and finalShaders for Maya

As of now REBUSfarm supports the rendering-engine finalRender Stage-2, the popular raytracing- and GI-system for Autodesk Maya. The service includes finalToon and finalShaders.

Equipped with a capacity of 1200 GHz, free-of-charge consulting and project-optimization, we will help our customers to meet their deadlines at the lowest costs possible.

April 4th 2008: Support of finalRender, finalToon and finalShaders for Cinema4D

As of now REBUSfarm supports the rendering-engine finalRender Stage-2, the popular raytracing- and GI-system for Maxon Cinema4D. The service includes finalToon and finalShaders.

Equipped with a capacity of 1200 GHz, free-of-charge consulting and project-optimization, we will help our customers to meet their deadlines at the lowest costs possible.

April 2nd 2008: Support of finalRender, finalToon and finalShaders for 3D Studio MAX

As of now REBUSfarm supports the rendering-engine finalRender Stage-1 R2, the popular raytracing- and GI-system for 3D Studio MAX. The service includes finalToon and finalShaders.

Equipped with a capacity of 1200 GHz, free-of-charge consulting and project-optimization, we will help our customers to meet their deadlines at the lowest costs possible.

01.04.2008 REBUSfarm uses 100% CO₂-free green energy

As of April 1st 2008 REBUSfarm will solely run on power produced from 100% regenerative energy sources from the Naturstrom AG, and actively contributes to clima protection. If you would like to know how much CO₂-emission and atomic waste you would spare the environment by rendering on the REBUSfarm, use our cost- and environment-calculator. Further information about our efforts to protect the climate can be found here.

February 20th 2008: Radical price-cuts down to universal 15,9 cent/GHzh

By using quad-processors, the capacity of our rendering slaves has been substantially increased. We have decided to completely pass these saving on to our customers. Furthermore we've simplified our price list, charging the universal price of 15,9 cent / GHzh, no matter which software you are using. This makes us the best priced rendering service in the world.

February 20th 2008: REBUSfarm updates to 1200GHz

REBUSfarm, Europe's biggest rendering-service, increases its total capacity to 1200GHz, thus doubling its output performance. It now exclusively consists of Quadcore systems carrying 8 GB RAM per Node. By this, we are trying to fulfill the growing need for highly available external rendering-power. Customers can look forward to quicker results, allowing tighter deadlines.

January 15th 2008: Blender 3D and YafRay support

As of now REBUSfarm supports Blender Foundation's Blender 3D and the rendering software YafRay. The open source software enjoys great popularity and will be kept up to date on our farm.

October 8th 2007: Next Limit Maxwell Render support

REBUSfarm is now the biggest authorized render farm for Next Limit Maxwell Render (MR). Our rendering service offers a quick and easy way to render MR projects. Equipped with a capacity of 600GHz, over 60 Maxwell licenses and free-of-charge project supervision, we'll help our customers to meet their deadlines at the most affordable price. Our cooperation with Next Limit is another step towards our aim at offering the widest possible range of software-support on the market.

August 8th 2007: VRay 1.50.00 Final Upgrade

REBUSfarm now supports VRay 1.50.00 Final Upgrade, the newest version of the fast andvanced GI rendering-engine. The upgrade includes a lot of improvements and bugfixes. An overview of the changes since the last version can be found here.