Hello Josh… You’re basically describing
something my little crew has been developing for the past year. I’ve
learned a LOT by lurking on this list and I’m
getting ready to show the fruits of the labor. A deskside renderfarm of sorts…
I currently have a 28ghz box sitting in front of me that supports After
Effects, Maya, Vue, and other graphics apps (supporting Mac and XP projects) through
a simple web based GUI. We’re not exactly live (selling to retail) yet as
I’m using NAB in Las Vegas
to garner interest from potential partners. We should be selling soon after. When
do you plan to purchase? I have custom built several mpeg2 encoding boxes
(whereby 10 nodes in one enclosure can do multipass mpeg2 encodes for high
quality DVD’s) and could would not mind talking to you about such an
arrangement.
Feel free to contact me off list if this
is of interest to you.
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Harrison
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006
5:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Beowulf] Mixed platform
multimedia rendering cluster (newbie)
Hello everyone,
I'm a student worker for the University
of Arizona's Office of
Student computing resources, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a good
resource for the following projects:
We're looking to build (possibly) an x-grid cluster that will render scenes
from Maya, movies from FinalCut, possibly Vue d'Esprit, and various Adobe
programs, including after effects.
I'd also like to investigate the possibility of getting a structure similar to
e-on Software's Vue d'Esprit RenderCow (dedicated controller, using latent CPU
and GPU cycles to render) running on our windows XP systems that would allow us
to do renders in the programs listed above.
What would be really cool is if there was an implementation that acted like
rendercow, and could use the power of both our x86 systems and our PPC systems
as a render farm.
I know this isn't really a beowulf cluster question, and unfortunetly, we can't
migrate our client nodes to anything other than OSX and XP, but I'm hoping
someone will have some insights as to where I should look, or who I should talk
to about configuring a cluster controller to do what I'm thinking about.
Thanks for any help,
Josh Harrison
University of Arizona Office of Student Computing
Resources
Multimedia Tech Lead
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Josh Harrison
Multimedia Technical Lead
Zone Office (520) 626-3993
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