Split Animation no. of frames on a 64 Cores Opteron Machine

Split Animation no. of frames on a 64 Cores Opteron Machine#364885

By voxelpictures - Sat Feb 09, 2013 4:27 pm

- Sat Feb 09, 2013 4:27 pm #364885

Hi Everybody,
I have a 64 Opteron render machine. if i batch render from maya on it, i render a frame at a time.
Can i split those physical 64 cores so that maxwell use say 2 cores per frames in aimation?
Thanks in advance!
Roshan

Last edited by voxelpictures on Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Split Animation no. of frames on a 64 Cores Opteron Mach#364886

By voxelpictures - Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:00 pm

- Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:00 pm #364886

The answer could be:
Opening multiple render nodes on the 64core machines?
Thanks for updating.

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Re: Split Animation no. of frames on a 64 Cores Opteron Mach#364909

By Mihnea Balta - Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:30 am

- Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:30 am #364909

I don't think you can do this straight out of Maya batch. You could write a script which starts multiple Maya batch commands in parallel and set the number of threads for each Maxwell instance to 2, but it requires a bit of MEL knowledge.

If you want to do this so you can get quick feedback on all the frames, you could instead render the animation to low SL using a single Maya batch process, then resume the render with a higher target SL if you're happy with the results. You will need to pass the -trytoresume flag to Maxwell in the "Additional Flags" field when you run the second pass, so that it resumes rendering from the existing SL automatically, without prompting you.