Learn how to create your own render farm with this tutorial from Blender Cookie.
Kent Trammell writes:
Interested in accelerating your renders? Learn everything you need to know about a Render Farm: How to build a custom unit inside a filing cabinet, networking across multiple OS platforms, and using Blender's "Network Render" addon to launch and manage render jobs.
Whether you've got the budget for building a custom farm or you have a bunch of friends with laptops, Blender makes it easy for everyone to take advantage of network rendering!
A written version is available to everyone while the more in-depth video and downloadable PDF is available to citizen members.
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great tuto from cg cookie !
i've found a good article about the best renderfarm for blender ,
here: http://www.tip-day.com/renderfarms-support-blender/
Great article indeed. Slightly different but I found a good solution as well.
Worth to check this website here: http://www.modularcreation.com
I recently built my home render farm with their cases and it worked out (depending on config) about £4-5000 for 6x i7 4770 nodes. It is also quiet and working 24/7. Excellent case. Not as cheap as a HELMER cabinet but much better.
I tried the HELMER and personally I cannot recommend it .