ASS render time prediction

Predicting render times for Arnold renderer scenes

Versions used

• Houdini 16.5.571
• Arnold 5.2.0.1
• htoa 3.1.1

Dataset 1

• This is to determine impact of computers parameters on rendering of an example scene
• Rendering one scene on multiple different computers
• Computer parameters captured:
  • Total GHz number: cores * frequency
  • RAM size
  • RAM type (DDR*)
  • RAM frequency
  • SSD?
  • CPU model
  • Hyperthreading
  • CPU cache

Dataset 2

• This dataset is used to determine ratio of render times between different scenes and an example scene
• Rendering different scenes on the same computer
• Scene parameters captured:
  • Amount of pixels: resolution_x * resolution_y
  • Samples
    • AA
    • diffuse
    • specular
    • transmission
    • volume indirect
    • bssrdf
    • transparency
  • Count of nodes
  • Scene bounds
  • Amount of geometry
  • Size of ASS file
  • Size of all textures referenced from the ASS file
  • Network speed
  • DoF?
  • Motion blur?
• Notes
  • included ASS files are not expanded and followed