Greetings all,

I'm experimenting with Poser Pro 2012's network render queue and I'd like to see if I can utilise the cloud to boost my rendering horse power when I need it.

So far I've successfully setup netowrk rendering between two physical machines on my network.

Now I'm trying to use an EC2 instance in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to host another Queue Manager instance and have it pick up render jobs from my local machine.

Thus far I've got a VPN connection back from the EC2 instance back to my master render machine, but the EC2 instance still doesn't "hear" any of the render requests being posted to the queue.

I'm still in the process of determining whether or not any communication is happening at all, the VPN connection states 0 bytes TX/RX which I find suspicious :P

• Has anyone had any luck hosting Queue Managers in the Cloud?
• Is VPN the best way to go or is there a better way to get my remote Queue Manager to pick up my render requests (SSH tunnel perhaps)?

I'll update this as I discover new things.

 

~ Ryan