Frantic Deadline

[suurland]

what I understood is that it's best to install both 32 and 64 bit Version on your 64 bit slaves.Dieter

That's true, but unfortunatly all my slaves doesn't have EMT64 so I can't run anything in 64bit mode on any of them. However i would like to work on a 64bit workstation, but at this point backburner doesn't allow a direct submission from 64bit to 32bit slaves. They say I can install 32bit version on my 64bit workstation too, and then everytime I render I should save the scene in 64bit max and open it in again 32bit max, and then submit to the slaves, but that it totally ridiculous.

/Thomas

[jreynolds]

So far we just made sure that Deadline does what it needs to for a hybrid network and haven't performed any tests to find variations with rendering engines rendering on a hybrid network. Eventually we will transition over to 100% 64-bit primary Workstations/ Slaves but will still have a 32-bit portion of the farm for a while . That's the main reason Deadline is setup the way that it is and will allow you to choose how the job should be distributed. There is a little drop down list to "Force 3ds Max Build" and the options are "none, 32bit, 64bit" so even if you have a hybrid Pool you can get the machines you need for the job.

Anyone have a good scene to test?

Best regards,
--Jon