You have created a great design that you want to visualize by rendering out a picture or animation.

Are you endlessly waiting for your computer to finish rendering your image or animation? Rendering is a matter of raw computing power, and there is only so much available in a single computer.

You wished you could have a super-computer that would finish the render job in no time!!!

Well did you know that the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment has a supercomputer that is specially configured for helping you finish your renders on time? It is called the BK Renderfarm. Any student and employee of TU Delft are eligible for using the services of the render farm.
The BK Renderfarm is already in use in the educational curriculum in courses like Beyond 3D “AR0771” and also frequently used for final presentations within other master and bachelor courses:

To use the render farm you need:

  1. A good connection with eduroam. If you are not located on TU campus at the time, you could also connect to the campus network through eduVPN.
  2. A connection with the render farm service. For more in detail steps on how to connect, please visit the manual on DigiPedia.
  3. A project in Maya or Blender. If you have designed your project in another 3D-modeling software such as Sketchup*, Rhino* or Revit* do not worry you can import your files into Maya or Blender.

*TOI-Pedia is currently only accessible via eduroam or with eduVPN. It’s successor, DigiPedia is accessbile from everywhere.

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact us: SID-Adhok@tudelft.nl