Quote - and the coup de grace would be able to access it from the day job, to set up scenes for the render Q

 

Which you could do, if you had a computer that had the firewall permissions. Set up the  wake on LAN feature if the motherboard supports it, and you can configure your render nodes to wake up when they receive the magic number, render and save, then go back to sleep. I work at a grocery store, so I don't have that luxury, but the same system is why the rack is downstairs now, not in my office..... 8D

 

One thing you have to keep in mind is heat. That rack goes into the closet behind it, and there is an oversized fan in the ceiling to vent the hot air from the ceiling outside. One of the reasons you want to keep your hardware as minimal as possible. Less stuff = less heat. And you don't want power supplies to be too small; the harder they work, the hotter they get. A good rule of thumb is to have a supply that outputs about  a third more wattage than you get by adding up what all the big parts draw.