Render farm?

[Da_elf]

yes it matters. 10 nodes per liscence. so with 2 liscences you get up to 20 nodes

[jacksc02]

at least your not using mental ray where you have to buy a license for each render node!!!

[gilicom]

does anyone know if i can install after effect and premire (any ver) on win 2003 server?

[tricky]

And so...

If I have the following setup, will it work?

Machine 1: Win 2000 Pro: materials library, backburner manager, vrayserver, frame save-to location

Machine 2-14: Win XP Pro: render machines

Machine 15-18: Win XP Pro: workstations

[Lucetius]

No,

your materials library and your frame save-to location will need to be on a "server" version of windows or as ezrhythm metioned, use linux.

[percydaman]

anything more then 10 machines needs a machine running windows server as a domain controller or something of the like. Oh and ya linux works too.

[Da_elf]

i remember once trying to install windows2k advanced server. i got a headache just trying to figure out where i was supposed to input my ip address so i gave up on it hehe.

[jacksc02]

there is a hack around to change the 10 machine limit.
I will see if I can find it.

[ezrhythm]

someone should actually see a smile on my face when i launched Backburner on SUSE... those who have 10 machine limit problem should really dedicate some old machine for Linux... I bought Celeron for that one... it still fast.

Get the latest version of WINE and just launch backburner, suprisingly it all works flawless! But thats not all, i've set up DHCP server, Intranet, etc on that one... I am actually gonna say this first time oficialy: "lunux rulez!"

[Da_elf]

backburner works on linux? how do you go about installing a windows program on linux?

[dbuchhofer]

You can use wine if you want to stay free, but it can get awkward if you're not too good at searching for obscure answers

but there are a couple front ends you can buy up to make things a bit easier on you, Crossover office (More officely based), and Cedega (setup specifically for games)

[ezrhythm]

BAckburner itself does not require installation at all...it can work straight from folder. Dont ask me more...cause i am still suprised, is been 2 weeks of perfect operation...

[tricky]

I'm gonna give SUSE and WINE a go - we have a dual XEON machine sitting around so hopefully that should be OK.
Thanks for the advice.

[tricky]

I know this isn't really the place to ask, but i just downloaded SUSE 9.3 (on 5 CDs) in an attempt to install it on my spare dual XEON machine. I think its a Dual P3 XEON 733 with 512MB Ram and an entry level FireGL card.

Basically, when I re-boot with CD 1 and run 'installation' from the DOS prompt, various lines of code appear (which looks fine) but about 5 seconds into this, the screen messes up as though the graphics card is faulty or something. Is this a common issue? Perhaps the card I have in there is unsuitable.

Any ideas?

[tricky]

It seems I have cleared up the issue - I found an old PCI graphics card and put that in - now it works just fine! Cool.