Comments for Animation, Multimedia and Research Blog of Jarrad Gittos

Comment on Home Renderfarm Research. by Nog / Jarvis

Nog / Jarvis — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:55:00 +0000

ahh, cheers mate.

I will look into that Royal Render, at the moment I have 6 boxes running a Windows 7 RC, which is just.. stupid. But I just haven’t had a chance to get proper Windows for them yet. They arn’t used that much anyway, just whenever I get a job that requires extensive rendering.
A couple are set up for After Effects, but generally I just render on my chunga system anyway as it’s massively faster.
I was going to go Phenom X6 processors, but was persuaded by a friend and went the spec below.

Gigabyte Radeon HD4350 512MB Overclocked
Intel Core i5 750
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB ST3500418AS
GeIL GV34GB1600C9DC 8GB DDR3 (4x2GB)

I just dropped these into cheap and nasty cases with PSU’s that I purchased locally.

I am thinking that I will just subscribe to http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions and reap the benefits of having access to Microsoft software for my render systems. I think you’re not meant to use the subscription for production environments, but I’ve heard it’s a bit of a grey area, so I’m going to look into it before I commit.

Comment on Home Renderfarm Research. by admin

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:24:35 +0000

Hi John,
Good to hear from you – I changed the setup a little more, went down the AMD quad core route, and beefed up the ram to 8gb each. All capable of 64 bit obviously, and they work pretty well. The nodes were a little more expensive but the performance made up for the cost.
I never ended up setting up a proper distribution client, was still toying with it all and put it on hold for now. Although I did set up an After FX watch folder and set up network rendering on AE. It works quite well – currently its sitting on Vista (old school). From what I understand, when the OEM links to the motherboard and you change hardware, you can actually call up an automated service, and they relink your serial to the new hardware – I cant remember exactly how it works, but I think you just select that you have changed hardware and it reallocates you a new activation key. Unfortunately if vray doesn’t work properly on linux, I don’t think you have too many options… Perhaps talk to a vray group about network rendering to find out the best possible solution.

I posted late December about a render distributor I was looking at called Royal Render – http://www.royalrender.de/cms/
Obviously I didn’t have a chance to test it out but prices look reasonable.

Let me know what you end up setting up because I’m interested in getting vray on my boxes too so I can handle outside jobs!

Comment on Home Renderfarm Research. by Nog / Jarvis

Nog / Jarvis — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:08:36 +0000

It’s been awhile. How’re things going these days?
Fail blog though.. about 6-7 months out of date? I’m disappointed mate… tsk tsk..

I was having a brain melt, so I was cruising through random interwebs and found this link somehow, somewhere.

I know this is an old post by you, but I assume you are still using a similar, or the same, set up?
I’ve just build half a dozen render boxes for a job which I would have no hope of getting rendered on my workstation because it’s tied up non stop atm. Anyway- basically I don’t want to run out now and shell out $160 for Windows 7 64-bit OEM for 6 boxes. I was going to get a Linux setup cracking using DrQueue, but it looks like it doesn’t work all that well with VRay, which is essential. I could use WINE, but from what I have read, WINE won’t let backburner install at all.
Just wondering what you have got up and running at the moment, and whether you know a way I can avoid spending $960 on Windows licenses, especially since they are OEM and linked to the motherboard, so if the board dies, it’ll cost me a new board + Windows.

Cheers

Comment on Showreel uploaded on Vimeo! by Adan

Adan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:52:12 +0000

Your good man, you should do this like for a job or something

Comment on Quick Update by Adan

Adan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:56:18 +0000

you go girl!

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Comment on Links, inspiration and extras. by admin

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:17:31 +0000

Yeah I know what you mean about the saturation, a little too much, but I think the reason it was so saturated was to fit in around the high colour displayed on the video footage, but even that looks like the saturation has been increased. Have you checked out the 11 second club comments and criticism? Definitely worth a look.