i have a little bit of clustering experience.if anything im still contemplating making a kubuntu derivative that is geared towards rendering clusters with the software and what not. i just dont have any experience with whats available for the rendering cluster market and linux that is why im asking all these questions. i did do some googling the other day only to find a list of commercial products.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:43 PM, H.Vidal, Jr. <<a href="mailto:hvidal@tesseract-tech.com">hvidal@tesseract-tech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">In my experience with 3D, the renderer is of particular note.<br>For example, it is entirely possible to model with one piece<br>
of software, export geometry, and render with another piece<br>of software. And the production team will probably have very<br>specific ideas of which renderer is what they want, especially<br>since tools such as RenderMan are themselves programmable, and<br>
cannot just be 'switched' with another rendering tool.<br><br>And so, based on your questions, it sounds like you really need<br>to study, understand, and educate yourself on your proposed product<br>or service before thinking about batch rendering. You are,<br>
as Americans would say, putting the cart before the horse.<br><br>So, as suggested, go study the 'front end' of the problem in much<br>greater detail, talk to potential customers, understand more<br>what you are intending to do, then come back and find out about<br>
clusters. The Beowulf mailing list has lots of archived comments<br>and questions on this topic. That's a hint.....<br><br>If you are just acting as a hobbyist or moving along a learning<br>curve, go look at open source rendering tools. If you are going<br>
to sell services on open source rendering tools, see comments<br>above. In any case, google and plain reading are your friends....<br><br>Good luck.<br><br>hv<br><br>Jon Aquilina wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">now what happens if someone comes to me for rendering services and they used maya will the maya file be able to use the software mentioned above or would i need some other software for that?<br><br></div>
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 7/2/08, *Bernard Li* <<a href="mailto:bernard@vanhpc.org" target="_blank">bernard@vanhpc.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bernard@vanhpc.org" target="_blank">bernard@vanhpc.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Perry E. Metzger <<a href="mailto:perry@piermont.com" target="_blank">perry@piermont.com</a><br></div>
<div class="Ih2E3d"> <mailto:<a href="mailto:perry@piermont.com" target="_blank">perry@piermont.com</a>>> wrote:<br><br> > "Jon Aquilina" <<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com" target="_blank">eagles051387@gmail.com</a><br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"> <mailto:<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com" target="_blank">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>>> writes:<br> >> if i use blender how nicely does it work in a cluster?<br> ><br> > I believe it works quite well.<br>
<br> As far as I know blender does not have any built-in "clustering"<br> capabilities. But what you do is render different frames on different<br> cores (embarrassingly parallel) using a queuing/scheduling system.<br>
DrQueue seems to be quite popular with the rendering folks:<br><br> <a href="http://drqueue.org/cwebsite/" target="_blank">http://drqueue.org/cwebsite/</a><br><br> Cheers,<br><br> Bernard<br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>
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