Renderfarm OS 2005-05-10 - By Jordi Bares
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we are using Fedora Core 2 for our renderfarm and workstations and works
really well.. some of the stats show the up and running time and tends
to be many many days without any performance degratation nor crashes.
jb
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 09:41, tony@(protected) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm about to take delivery of a mini renderfarm (10 dual cpu ibms in a small
> rack enclosure), but was wondering what the best OS for it should be. I'm
> currently using xsi on winxp, so should I stick with that? How about linux?
And
> is there a particular flavour of linux i should use? I have limited unix
skills,
> but am sure i'm up to setting up a linux server.
>
> Also, I don't have batchserve. Up until now i've simply been using xsibatch
> command line rendering to set off distributed rendering. I'm comfortable with
> it and find it adequate for my needs, but should I consider investing in
> batchserve or some sort of render management software now that i have this
> mini-farm.
>
> cheers
> Tony.
>
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