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Subject: Rendering farm

CAFxX opened this issue on Nov 14, 2002 ยท 10 posts


bluetone posted Fri, 15 November 2002 at 12:36 PM

A bunch of computers, used together, that speeds up the overall time of rendering by parsing out individual frames, usually used for animations. My questions are: How? Would people have individual accounts on the servers to parse frames to? What software would everyone use? If I'm doing an animation in 3D Max, but the system is setup for Maya, I'm out of luck. Why? What is the incentive for R'osity to purchase, setup, and maintain multiple machines. Never mind the possibility for people to upload viruses. As soon as you are allowing people to do render-farming, you are allowing them to control remote computers at the application level. Far to open for any IT person to sleep well at night. Other then these questions, I would love for someone to setup a free render farm! It would save me thousands of dollars, and be very cool to put on the business card: "Unlimited rendering! Animations done before you ask for them!Peace in our time! All this for less then a phone call! So, call now!" ;>