Linux Render Slaves - Yes it works!

[thomthom]

I've been playing with the idea of getting some cheap quadcore motherboards, RAM and HDs and build a renderfarm. I didn't like the idea of getting a Windows licence for each just to run one program on them.

So I tried installing the DRSpawner via Wine on my Ubuntu box. And it works perfectly!

Screenshot from the cow:


Screenshot from the server:

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Linux Render Slaves - Yes it works!

That is very cool...thanks for jumping into the deep end and testing this one.

[thomthom]

Re: Linux Render Slaves - Yes it works!

No problem.
I'm not really familiar with Linux, but this was one of them things that just worked immediately.

If anyone need inspiration for DIY renderfarm have a look at http://helmer.sfe.se/

I was checking out prices yesterday and found that it's only be about £1200 for four 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quadro computers. (Mainboard, CPU, RAM, HD and PSU) Not bad for 16 2.4GHz processors. (And this is Norwegian prices, elsewhere it'd be much cheaper. I expect nearly half the price in the US.)

[spiderpig]

Re: Linux Render Slaves - Yes it works!

I've just tested th DRSpawner render under wine and it works fine.

Just to complement the information, you need to install some windows runtimes (VisualC++, I believe) to the default wine installation.

They are the vcrun2005  and vcrun2005sp1, which can be installed by a neat script called winetricks (it downloads and installs it in the local .wine folder, no need to be root).

The 'winetricks' url is http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

[thomthom]

Re: Linux Render Slaves - Yes it works!

I wasn't aware of that. I suppose that something else I installed allready installed that for me as I didn't have to do that. Good to know.