Networ render

[eman7613]

is their a way that i can run a master that also renders the image with 1 or both of its cores (while other slave computers are conected to it? and can an indigo slave find a master over my intranet? (i havent tried yet).

[psor]

Heya eman7613! ;o)

Yes, that works pretty fine. But I'm not sure what you mean with:

... and can an indigo slave find a master over my intranet?

... because you have to specify the master and port at the commandline.


I've tested the new version (0.6.4) on our renderfarm (6x AMD64 X2 4400+)
and I used my workstation as 7th slave and as master. After ten minutes
I was getting ~1.250.000 mutations per seconds and after one hour the
image was looking fine already. After two hours I stopped the render
and was very happy with the result. So all I can tell is that I'm pretty
impressed by Indigo's network rendering ... even in this alphastage
it rocks. btw. the scene had about 150k polys, HDRI lighting and three
meshlights.

Sorry for the long post. ;o))


take care
psor

[zsouthboy]

I've successfully paired a master/slave over the INTERNET no less, uploading of frames takes a while, but it doesn't hamper things.

IMO Indigo's network rendering code is excellent. Easy to use, no wierd BS to deal with.

[eman7613]

Heya eman7613! ;o)

Yes, that works pretty fine. But I'm not sure what you mean with:

... and can an indigo slave find a master over my intranet?

... because you have to specify the master and port at the commandline.

i havent tried with .6t1, but when i was trying to get .5 to use both corse (make it conect to itself) i had to delete the port number in the file for it to work, when i did that it worled fine. And an intranet is a local netowrk, and despite having 100 ips to give out on my router we only use 5, so we could hook up a lot more ;p

[psor]

@eman7613

Well, ... v0.5.x has no multithread support so you have to start
as many slaves as cpus you've and bind the different processes
to the cpus. And dunno about the file since I used the CLI method
to specify the master and port ... ;o))

... , and despite having 100 ips to give out on my router we only use 5, so we could hook up a lot more ;p

Erm, ... huh?


take care
psor

[eman7613]

... , and despite having 100 ips to give out on my router we only use 5, so we could hook up a lot more ;p

Erm, ... huh?

wirles network, and our router can handle 100 conections (so it can give out 100 ip adresses)

[psor]

Ahh, ... you mean per DHCP?! ... ok we are on the best way to
go more off topic ... ups to late. *fg*

;o))


take care
psor