render farm setup 2004-02-29 - By Schoenberger
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Distributed rendering has its difficulties, if you have multiple users,
that want to render at the same time and (more important) if the
machines are used as workstations.
I have an additional question that matters to find a solution:
If you have multiple projects, do you have different project accounts?
Or are all students able to access all project data from every student?
If it is that way, you won't have luck with simple batch scripts.
I know it from a student farm that had about 40 workstations. (Now 76,
but now there is RRender management)
The students went from one machine to the other, logging them in,
starting their render(, sometimes locking the workstation) and leavin a
sign "I'm rendering, please call 02344324234"
Another question:
If you have different project accounts, do you have a (admin) user, that
is able to access all home drives?
(I don't mean the root of the fileserver, I mean the unc drive name,
that the student is mapping if he logs on).
If you don't have a user that can do this, you wont have luck with a lot
of render management tools.
Holger Sch�nberger
technical director. animator. freelancer
The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
Royal Render, improved farm management
>> -- --Original Message-- --
>> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
>> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of PTT
>> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:55 PM
>> To: XSI@(protected)
>> Subject: render farm setup
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like some 'real world' experience feedback on
>> setting up and
>> administrating a render farm. XSI tech advice would be
>> greatly appreciated
>> too! You can respond off list.
>>
>> We currently have a studio of 14 XSI stations which are
>> not on a network
>> and are FINALLY moving towards networking them in order to
>> use them as a
>> render farm.
>>
>> Here's the deal - it's a student lab, so it needs to be
>> managed in such a
>> way to support multiple users and multiple projects. Which
>> works best in
>> this scenario - batch rendering or distributed rendering?
>> Our goal - to
>> speed up rendering time as well as to manage projects.
>>
>> Thanks for any and all help!
>>
>> Pam
>> Associate Professor, Kinetic Imaging
>> VCU School of the Arts
>> Virginia Commonwealth University
>> 804-828-7209
>>
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