High performance remote rendering is somewhat the “holy grain” of visualization and visual effects, allowing a single entity to manage a massive resource that’s farmed out to anyone who needs it. One player in the remote rendering marketplace is DUX Soft in India, founded by Amit Srivastava, which runs a large render farm and computing grid that’s used by several companies.
The international clients’ list include names like Sony Pictures Imageworks, and the national list includes Maya Entertainment, Red Chillies, Tata Elxi VCL, etc.
The company aims to bring to the market more innovative products based solutions that address rendering, pipeline, asset management and storage.
This year, in 2009-10, DUX Soft expects to rake in revenues of $6 million.
The Express Computer article has a good writeup on their technology and software, and some of the hurdles they’ve had to overcome both technical and political.
