Network Rendering
Greetings 3D Artists!
Does Autodesk have a recommended network choice/setup
for render farms?
I have a number of machines throughout the company
which I put into slave mode each night – and during the
day when they're not being used.
My main problem is the network traffic and how it affects
the other people trying to work on the net.
I intend to have 10 machines as dedicated slaves plus another
12 machines being used at nights.
If I set up a seperate server/ring for the farm, what would
the pros and cons be? Where would the bottleneck of data be?
Also, what would be the best way of transferring files between
the PC network and Silicon Graphics machines – PC-NFS ?
It has been suggested that I use a Mac as a gateway between
PC and SG, but this doesn't seem ideal to me..
Thanks for any comments or suggestions.
Andy Roberts
BITS Corp