A New Software Architecture for Ultra-large-scale Rendering Cloud

A kind of new five-level software architecture is presented in this paper, which is designed elaborately for ultra-large-scale rendering cloud. This software architecture consists of five levels, infrastructure layer, rendering service layer, rendering application layer, service management and access interface. Based on the proposed software architecture, we have developed a new type of rendering management software called Golden Farm Cluster Rendering Platform. And comprehensive tests have been carried on the super computer, Tian He 1A. Experimental results show that Golden Farm can effectively manage the rendering jobs on ultra-large-scale high performance cluster with up to 2000 computing nodes and also obtain good performance. In addition, the platform has created an important record, rendering a 3D model by using 24000 CPU cores in parallel.