Forum: Vue

Subject: Render Farm setup

BUSHY8996 opened this issue on May 13, 2011 · 14 posts

Dale B posted Sat, 14 May 2011 at 5:12 PM

Quote - Thanks Dale this makes alot of sense.

Just to confirm,

1) Render cows are to be installed on ALL computers, even the main PC that will have hypervue installed.

  1. The main PC is to be of the higher spec in terms of cpu,memory & graphics card.

3) Only need x1 monitor, keyboard & mouse - if all are connected to a 4 port KVM switch.

4) I only have 10/100 onboard cards at the moment - so best option would be to buy gigabit ethernet cards for each PC, any advice on the card details/model no?

  1. set rendercow to launch at startup.

Am I right in saying that rendercow and hypervue only speed up rendering - and does not have any effect for working with in vue i.e speed up tasks when working with vue - importing poser charactors ect?

Thanks guys for taking the time to go through this with me;)

 

  1. Correct. 2. Not quite. Having a little more system RAM will help, as your main box is both running Vue and the Hypervue Manager, which keeps track of exactly what each cow is doing. If there is not enough physical RAM to hold all of a processes information, then it goes to the swap file....and hard drive access times remain the greatest bottleneck in computers. Vue doesn't use the graphic card to accelerate rendering, so you don't need a monster card. If you are using one of the upper end Vue's that actually =uses= miltithreading, then a robust multicore processor can be very beneficial. If not, then 2 threads are the max. Processor speed will affect render times, but careful scene optimization can speed things up a lot. The other option is to be very, very careful as to the size of your project, so that you have the memory for Hypervue to use. 3. Yep! And handy little things they are. You have to use VGA connectors and adapters on your video card and monitor. They do make DVI capable KVM switches, but they are $$$..... 4. If you want the gigabit speeds, then that is way to go if the mobo's don't suppor it. Most gigabit NIC's are pretty much alike, when it comes to the basics. Just get a basic gNIC, install it, and load the driver that came with it. And make sure that you disable the onboard NIC, so that they don't get into a fight with each other. 5. Yes. You're welcome. Just wish someone had been around to tell me this; would have saved a lot of experimentation.... :P