Once you have your Carbon Server in place, there are few IT tasks as simple as scaling your render farm. By adding Carbon Agents to the network, Carbon Server will detect the available agents and automatically distribute it's job queue to the agents. Regardless if you run 10 or 100 agents, you only have one point of communcation with your transcoding farm - and that is your Carbon Server.
While Carbon Server requires a Microsoft platform, Rhozet is offering a platform-agnostic User Interface. Ideal for a Mac-based production environment, Carbon Server is setup and managed largely via an easy-to-use web interface.
As with Carbon Coder, a full-featured API is included, ready to use. While the API's are largely identical, Carbon Server includes Agent management tools that can be exploited to dynamically scale the size of the farm in addition to other Server specific features. The API is easy to work with. IMC has vast experience with the API and can assist you and your programming team.
In many cases it can be very practical to be able to target one or more agents specifically with a given job. To enhance processing speed certain agents could be equipped with more CPU's, accellerator boards or high speed access to an external storage. Additionally, certain codecs can be costly, and may not be needed across a large render farm. By cleverly using tags, you can address just the right agents in the farm. While it admittedly does sound simple, it is a very powerful feature.
While it would be possible to build your own server logic and use Carbon Coders as render nodes, Rhozet can save you thousands of programming hours at a very reasonable cost. Carbon Server is your single point of communication with all your agents and it handles errors, agent failure, job queue management, load distribution, as well as file delivery functions that are not available in Carbon Coder. In short, Carbon Server is the quality-assured World-renowned render farm manager that will fasttrack you into a highly flexible transcoding farm.
- Runs on Microsoft platform
- Web-based User Interface
- Full-featured API for single-point farm management
- High level of scaleability
- High level of automation
- Easy interaction with Carbon Coder
- Attractive cost
Please call us on +45 3313 8411 if you need in-depth information on any of the features we have briefly touched here.
