#Network Render design
Among a couple of 486 DX2/66 machines that I use for rendering (and model
development) I've got an old 386DX/33 machine with 8 MB of memory. It obviously
isn't useful for rendering, but I was wondering about the practicality of
putting my PAR and Magneto Optical disk (and probably a CD-ROM) into the 386
system and using it as a common network resource that all of the rendering
machines could get at. (I'm running Lantastic 6)
Is this practical? Will the software that I've heard about for assembling
files onto the PAR from around the net work for this setup where 3DS isn't
running on the machine with the PAR in it?
Do those of you with render farms keep the 3DS master machine (the one with
the dongle) running as a master or do you set it up as a slave to help with the
rendering? It would look like there was some advantage to maintain the ability
to keep track of the net queue without having to drop out of slave mode to do
it.
Chris
– Chris Johnston, Written 04-Mar-1995 @ 23:11:51
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