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Best configuration for a renderfarm ?

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:13 pm
by inefecto
At In Efecto we've got a renderfarm on win7x64 witch is used both for Mental Ray and MaxwellRender.
I also setup a computer only used for MX manager and monitor apps (8Go DDR3, Intel Dual Core, good HDD and also a win7x64).

But we've got many problem on network rendering, I often reboot manager / monitor and sometimes rendernode on each lame of the Rfarm... So annoying that's why I would like to know the best configuration to use MX network suite.
Linux on the farm ? Linux for the manager machine ? Both ? Other ?

Re: Best configuration for a renderfarm ?

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:02 am
by itsallgoode9
same problem here, so i hope you find an answer. I too end up manually going to each computer and restarting the rendernode pretty frequently.

Re: Best configuration for a renderfarm ?

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:44 pm
by inefecto
I'm glad to meet someone who have the same problem ^^

Hope someone could answer us...

Re: Best configuration for a renderfarm ?

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:46 pm
by Bubbaloo
I have found that closing and re-opening MANAGER often works well.

Re: Best configuration for a renderfarm ?

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:52 pm
by inefecto
I notice your tip too :)
Do you know if it's better to launch manager and monitor on differents computers ?

Re: Best configuration for a renderfarm ?

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:55 pm
by dmeyer
The most elegant solution for supporting multiple renderers on the same hardware is to use a 3rd party render manager.

Re: Best configuration for a renderfarm ?

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:45 pm
by Bubbaloo
inefecto wrote:I notice your tip too :)
Do you know if it's better to launch manager and monitor on differents computers ?
I'm not sure if it matters. I've done it both ways.