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drastik
Jul 2, 2002, 12:07 PM
IS it possible for me to use my Pismo and sawtooth as a render farm cluster to work with FCP, I'd love the speed boost. If you can do this, does anyone know where I can get some direction, I went to Appleseed, but their instructions were vauge and aimed towards scientific clustering.


menoinjun
Jul 2, 2002, 12:27 PM
A program has to be written to take advantage of clustering, and I don't believe that Final Cut Pro is. Programs like Bryce 5 are, and they make it very well known that it is. Maybe in FCP 4 it will be written in, but for now since apple doesn't advertise it, I doubt that it's in there.

-Pete
drastik
Jul 2, 2002, 12:36 PM
Yeah, I guess that makes since, it'd be nice to kill some rendering time without buying new hardware, oh well, gotta get some more work.;)
evildead
Jul 2, 2002, 02:07 PM
The redering App does not necessarly need to be writin for clusering. Many cluster OS's take care of all that overhead. You can run a active active cluster and the apps on the system dont even know that the other cluster node exists. But ... for OS X... I dont think thats possible yet. There was a lot of cluster research going on at MIT with Macs (and other Universities) but it was a long time ago and I dont know much about it

-evildead
cb911
Jul 2, 2002, 06:01 PM
render farms are swweeeett!!! :D :D
menoinjun
Jul 2, 2002, 06:32 PM
Really? How do you run the cluster then? This is all news to me, and this is the good thing about this board. Everyone seems to know what I don't. I learn something new every day.

-Pete
iapple
Jul 4, 2002, 10:29 AM
HOW DO YOU HOOK THE RENDER FARM UP???? I've never done anything like it.. is iit via ethernet, or something else? How do you configure?
Can I use an iBOok and a PowerBOok and use 2 CPUs?? ofcourse, under OS X that is..
firewire2001
Jul 4, 2002, 02:01 PM
Originally posted by iapple
HOW DO YOU HOOK THE RENDER FARM UP???? I've never done anything like it.. is iit via ethernet, or something else? How do you configure?
Can I use an iBOok and a PowerBOok and use 2 CPUs?? ofcourse, under OS X that is..

what are you talking about bubba?...

render farms are usually over either ethernet (100bit or 1000bit), but usually over Fibre Optic lines....

in macs, you would make a render farm with ethernet.. but im not chure what er talking about...