This is more of a general question.

Since the cooking operation or writing a chache to disk is a single threaded operation. How are the bigger studios cooking these monster sims in any reasonable time?

This process cannot be broken up across machines and is single threaded, I am just wondering how one would pull off a monster sim like that. Say a GI Joe acid thing or the nano swarm in the day the earth stood still, or even a huge DOPs sim.

I am just trying to speed up me personal workflow and wondering how everyone else is doing it.

Thanks!

Actually, we do have distribution of sims…

One idea is to use for one sim with random seed with small number of particles

and the to split on few workstation…

Ther is a thred on OdForce, i post some example on diffrent setup for simulating and rendering big number of particles

There is a scene and videos

Maybe some setup help you

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/10065-krakatoa-shader/ [forums.odforce.net]

silvina
Actually, we do have distribution of sims…

Silvina,

How is this being accomplished? This is not something built in is it? I am assuming that we have to do like the other poster said, and incorporate the randomness into the workflow and use it to our advantage.