3XS Cloud Rendering Service
GPU-accelerated rendering in the cloud
Cloud Rendering
3XS Systems servers are the gold standard when it comes to rendering applications. Powered by professional-grade NVIDIA RTX GPU accelerators, all the capabilities of our award-winning 3XS servers are now available in the cloud from any device, anywhere. The Cloud Rendering Service powered by Scan Cloud, enables any organisation to take advantage of highly responsive GPU-accelerated compute without the need to invest in on-premise hardware and its associated maintenance. Available in rental increments as small as one month, Cloud Rendering can be used as little or as often as needed.
GPU-accelerated
NVIDIA RTX GPUs lie at the heart of our Cloud Rendering Service, delivering cutting edge performance and features for rendering.
Scalable
As your business needs develop additional Cloud Rendering instances can be quickly spun up and additional storage brought online.
Flexible
3XS Cloud Rendering profiles are available in a wide range of configurations, tuned for the different users and render engines used in your organisation.
Cost-effective
Available in monthly commitments paid for from OPEX, there is no upfront outlay from CAPEX or ongoing maintenance costs associated with on-premise hardware.
Secure
3XS Cloud Rendering Service is hosted in secure datacentre environments so the cloud experience will not compromise the integrity of your data.
Trusted
As an NVIDIA partner, Scan provides guidance throughout your cloud service - from a free guided proof of concept to personalised workstation configurations.
Optimised for rendering
We understand how important it is to tune workstations for specific workloads and applications. The 3XS Cloud Workstation range includes multiple profiles, specifically designed for the most popular workloads. As 3XS Cloud Workstations support any standard Windows-based DCC application, our specialists can create a custom profile for you if required.
GPU Rendering
GPUs are ideal for rendering as they have thousands of cores working parallel. A render that will take a CPU hours may be complete in minutes on a GPU. However, there may be some tasks where some intricate detail may be lost.
Although a separate component from the CPU and featuring dedicated memory, GPUs can be scaled and performance is delivered through the many cores and rapid throughput.
CPU Rendering
Most render engines are now able to take advantage of GPUs for shorter render times. However, the 3XS Cloud Rendering Service also supports high speed CPU rendering. CPUs are sometimes better at rendering intricate projects, as they can smoothly handle a set of more diverse tasks that require different computing operations, as opposed to GPUs which are designed to process huge chunks of data by executing them in the same way over and over again.
Supported Applications
Accelerated by NVIDIA RTX GPUs
The most powerful professional visualisation and compute GPUs are the NVIDIA RTX series. RTX GPUs, delivered virtually by the 3XS Cloud Rendering Service bring a host of features to the professional user enabling far greater creativity, control and capability.
Real-Time Ray Tracing
RTX GPUs realise the dream of real-time cinematic-quality rendering through optimised ray-tracing APIs such as Microsoft DXR - providing the ability to render photorealistic objects and environments in real time with perfectly accurate shadows, reflections, and refractions.
AI Enhanced
RTX GPUs add powerful AI-enhanced capabilities into visual applications. This dramatically accelerates creativity by freeing up time and resources through intelligent manipulation of images, automation of repetitive tasks, and optimisation of compute-intensive processes.
Features of Scan Cloud
Each Cloud Rendering instance is provided with at least 500GB of high performance SSD storage for the operating system and applications. Storage of project data, such as models, textures and video is provided via dedicated cloud storage nodes that can be accessed by the Cloud Rendering profiles in your account. Our application specialists will work with you to identify the optimum capacity for this shared storage, which can be easily scaled as your needs develop.
Pricing and profiles
| CLOUD RENDERING PROFILES | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profile | CPU Cores | RAM | GPUs | GPU Cores | Storage | Usage | Relative Performance | Price per month |
| LN124464 | 16x AMD EPYC | 64GB DDR4 | 48GB NVIDIA Ampere RTX |
10,752 CUDA, 336 Tensor, 84 RT |
1TB | Rendering | * | £819 (ex VAT) |
| LN124465 | 32x AMD EPYC | 128GB DDR4 | 2x 48GB NVIDIA Ampere RTX |
2x 10,752 CUDA, 336 Tensor, 84 RT |
1TB | Rendering | ** | £1,579 (ex VAT) |
| LN124466 | 64x AMD EPYC | 256GB DDR4 | 4 x 48GB NVIDIA Ampere RTX |
4x 10,752 CUDA, 336 Tensor, 84 RT |
1TB | Rendering | *** | £3,099 (ex VAT) |
| LN124458 | 24x Intel Xeon | 384GB DDR4 | 8 x 24GB NVIDIA Turing RTX |
8x 4608 CUDA, 576 Tensor, 72 RT |
1.7TB | Rendering | **** | £1,799 (ex VAT) |
| LN124467 | 128x AMD EPYC | 384GB DDR4 | 8 x 48GB NVIDIA Ampere RTX |
8x 10,752 CUDA, 336 Tensor, 84 RT |
15TB | Rendering | ***** | £5,499 (ex VAT) |
Start using 3XS Cloud Workstations today
Speak to our Cloud Workstation team to arrange a demo or start renting workstation instances.
Deploy your own 3XS Cloud Workstations
Prefer to go the private cloud route? We can also provide a full deployment of hardware and software, fully configured to deploy your own private cloud workstations.