Comments on: Piovra Renderfarm Project Updated

By: elcazze

elcazze — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:31:42 +0000

maybe someone can send me an email how to render on two PCs at the same time? That would be so cool, plz send a PM to my account on blenderartists forum, my nick there is "neablo"

By: Vidrazor

Vidrazor — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:01:15 +0000

There is another source of hardware for a render farm if you have a willing party.

Your boss.

If you work for a company that has a good number of computers, chances are good thay're not doing anything on the overnight shift. If you can get permission from your boss, you set them up as a renderfarm so they can crank for you on the graveyard shift. You'll need to instruct the regular users on how to kill it when they show up in the morning so they can then proceed to do their regular activities (you know, like surfing the 'net). After all, it's their workstations.

Still, if this is a viable option for you, it's a great way to get your paws on what could be an army of machines, depending on the size of the company.

By: elcazze

elcazze — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:00:49 +0000

thanks lobo!

5to11: what about the web transfer? I don't want to download gigs of data if I can render my things with acceptable speed on my two machines with each 4GHz and gigs of ram?
I think for this purpose a script or application for personal renderfarms is really a good deal!

By: 5to11

5to11 — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:09:12 +0000

sorry $20 15mins frame bronze service.

mike pan: no limit and that's for commercial projects as well as personal.

as already said, insanely cheap and the web front end to the whole system is excellent. Support is very good (email) also even at this rate.

You really have to question why bother with DR scripts, pulling hair out over DRQueue etc and all the other overheads of running your own setup.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:04:22 +0000

I personally prefer Netblend (as mentioned above by lobo_nz), as its so easy to set up. I might try Piovra seeing as its been update now innit.

By: mike pan

mike pan — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:51:33 +0000

is there a limit as to how much one can render per month on respower?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:26:04 +0000

$10 dollars? To the best of my knowledge ResPower is $20 a month for their cheapest (15 mins per frame time limit) Blender offer. This is still insanely cheap, and it's a great service, but I just wanted to clarify that price. If you are sure about the $10 dollars thing, please post a link to that specific offer.

By: 5to11

5to11 — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:28:20 +0000

Do it yourself DR's fun but why not just use http://www.respower.com with a incrediblely cheap subscription service (doesn't auto renew) and use their DR and split frame rendering for blender? ($10 a month is cheap isn't it, for 700+ machines and upto use of 100 for split frame?) just what a headache you'd have running anwhere near that amount of power in your bedroom, garage or basement and what about you're power bill!

By: blender distributed rendering

blender distributed rendering — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:06:57 +0000

interesting, i'll give it a go, but frankly BURP is the most promising distributed renderer so far. And it's near completion!

By: Alexander Ewering

Alexander Ewering — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:34:30 +0000

Too bad instinctive-blender's network renderer never got ported to official CVS. From the various docs I've read, it was *really* far easier to set up than the others – and especially easier to use ;) (Just needed a shared drive among all computers, activate "Render daemon", and press ANIM. But oh well)