Backburner or DR over internet? Any optimizations??

[RSF]

Hello.
I'm trying to use backburner or DR to connect to the office pc's
I know I can do it using a VPN because it works as a regular private network.
My question is...what about optimizations for sending the file over the internet?
I already have lots of stuff copied to each node but the main scene can be large and sending it to each node individualy is going to be the real bottleneck in this operation.
Is there any optimizations regarding this issue either with backburner or DR in Vray?
Is there any third party software?
Thanks

[vlado]

Maybe you can try to use the 3dsmax option to compress the .max files...

Best regards,
Vlado

[Blitterswitch]

Can someone explain to me how I can utilise my renderfarm at home to help dr render stuff in work please? I didn't realise this was possible! Very exciting!

[Dynedain]

You need to get your home computer network bridged with your office computer network.

The best solution is VPN.


Which turns this into a networking discussion, not a VRay-specific discussion.

[RSF]

But even with compression is the file going to be sent over and over again for each different node with a VPN??

[vlado]

Well, the nodes do have to get the file somehow. If you don't want to transfer the whole scene to all the slaves from home, you can try to initiate the distributed rendering from one of the office machines instead, so that you only have to transfer the scene to it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[dlparisi]

Set up a manager on one the office PCs and direct your office pc's to that one. Max will send it to the manager once over VPN and it should distibute it locally around the office after that once the job starts. I think this will work but don't quote me.

[mike_kennedy]

Or use Remote Desktop and use a machine in you office to submit jobs from home on an office machine via a VPN tunnel. That way nothing is sent from home except commands.

[RSF]

Of course...files are sent once to the manager...
Thanks guys.

[RSF]

Hi!
Because I have a pre-release version (because of the ploating point bug) the DR is not working so I can't experiment now but...my question is:
How does DR work when you're sending a job throught the internet?
Do you need a vpn? Is the scene sent over the internet one time for each node or will it be sent only once over the internet to the vrayspawner running near the nodes?
Thanks

PS: By the way Vlado...I instaled a fix because of the floating point bug but lost the DR...is there any newer fix? Thanks

[Dynedain]

I would not mess with DR over the internet... your internet connection speed will be enough of a bottleneck that the time savings won't balance it out.

But basically, VPN lets remote machines behave as if they were on your local network. If you can get that working, and you have backburner working on machines on your local network, then through VPN, you can get backburner working on remote machines.

[rcollett]

Or use Remote Desktop and use a machine in you office to submit jobs from home on an office machine via a VPN tunnel. That way nothing is sent from home except commands.

http://www.tightvnc.com/

Much better than remote desktop because the remote desktop logs the current user off of the remote machine. Using VNC will allow you to connect/disconnect all you want without disturbing the existing applications. (latest versions even support multi-monitor setups)