After Effects render-farm tonic

[MacBytes]

Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: After Effects render-farm tonic (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20040203134049)

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[mkaake]

GridIron's software takes care of the configuration and management tasks required to run a computing job across a group of computers – work that would be too complex for most end-users to handle themselves, Abbas said. That ability, combined with today's network speeds, could help to make grid computing accessible to everyday desktop users, he said.



okay, i admit i don't know too much about clustered computing, but doesn't this seem pretty similar to xGrid, except adobe is paying money to use it?

matt

[cc bcc]

Xgrid is not available for pc's, and Adobe is a cross platform software company.

[eric_n_dfw]

I wonder if they are using Rendezvous (aka ZeroConf) for the discovery of other nodes like xGrid, iTunes, Tivo HMO and xCode do.

I really hope so, as I would love to see it become widely used as a cross-platform standard.

I'm surprised we haven't seen this kind of thing for Final Cut Pro already. Hopefully this will spur Apple to implement it. (finger's crossed!)

[mkaake]

Originally posted by cc bcc
Xgrid is not available for pc's, and Adobe is a cross platform software company.

lol - i guess that makes a little tooo much sense ;)

where's *my* head today?

matt