From: Marilyn Hagle <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 7:23:42 AM
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Taking requests
Cool.
The rendering farm consists of a server machine and slave machines (I am a
teacher, not a system administrator, so my terminology will be in the
vernacular). :) The server machine has two network cards - one faces the WAN
and one goes to a separate hub that connects the slave machines.
There are a couple of live CDs that automatically create clusters that almost
did the job. One is Pelican * that is the new Parallel Knoppix. The one I
liked better is called Instant Grid. Instant Grid is setup to create a render
farm using PovRay. However, the connections between PovRay and Blender and
Cinelerra are not user friendly. I was not able to get them to work.
If you could use an Instant Grid system with Dr. Queue and if it would render
projects from Blender and Cinelerra - that would be fabulous!!
I am looking for a system to use personally, but also a
user-friendly one I can
share with other teachers.
Thanks!
Marilyn
Quoting Matt Tech <
mattech75@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Marilyn,
>
> Besides blender, what other software do you need for your rendering farm?
>
> I can probably package everything for you but I have no experience with any
> of it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Marilyn Hagle <
marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:
schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday,
December 19, 2008 11:22:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Taking requests
>
> Matt,
>
> I look forward to testing your CD. I use another live CD/DVD, Musix, in
> class
> all the time.. However, since our Christmas holiday starts in an hour, I
> probably will not get to play with small.iso soon.
>
> I am looking for someone to help with my render farm. I feel like I am
> close,
> but not quite there. Any experience with Blender, Dr. Queue, and render
> farms?
>
> Happy Holidays to all on this list!
>
>
> Marilyn
>
>
>
> Quoting Matt Tech <
mattech75@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > No apology needed, no devious intent here. It's just pclinuxos with a bunch
> > of software installed on it.
> > no big deal.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
________________________________
> > From: Charles Cossé <
ccosse@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To:
schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:42:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Taking requests
> >
> > As I recall, "Matt" / Chris Yates showed up about 1-2 years ago and
> > was attempting some devious activity. Of course, if I am wrong, then
> > my apologies, but I would be very careful ... it don't sound quite
> > right.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Peter Scheie <
peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > I don't
think Matt is abusing the list; he may just be unfamiliar with
> some
> > > of the etiquette, such as including the link to the file when he
> discusses
> > > it.
> > >
> > > For the record, in case anyone missed the previous message containing the
> > > link, the ISO can be downloaded from
> > >
http://mattech.exhspace.com/mattech/small.iso> > >
> > > I think the name, small.iso, may be a bit of a misnomer, however, as it
> is
> > > 684MB. The hosting website does seem to have good bandwith, though.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > Charles Cossé wrote:
> > >>
> > >> "Matt", can you please not abuse this list? Nobody has a link, and I
> >
>> seriously
doubt if you have a product.
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Matt Tech <
mattech75@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> For now, you all have a link to a very crude image just to see if it
> will
> > >>> work on your hardware.
> > >>>
> > >>> It currently does not run with NVidea graphics cards or on older
> > >>> machines..
> > >>>
> > >>> I am looking for requests and suggestions on what would be the best
> > >>> package
> > >>> in your view.
> > >>>
> > >>> To answer on question: Yes, this can be customized for any need, and I
> > >>> believe it should
be.
> > >>>
>
> >>> Your input will determine the final image, as per everyones needs.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks for the interest.
> > >>>
> > >>> Matt
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > AsymptopiaSoftware|Software@theLimit
> >
http://www.asymptopia.org> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> :)
>
>
>
>
:)