Hi, I'm seriously thinking of getting a bunch of free/cheap old boxen to use as Cin render farm nodes. A few questions come to mind:
1) Compiling - is there a way of ./configure-ing and compiling a Cin renderfarm node, such that it doesn't need X or any graphical libs? I'm preferring to have the nodes headless. Or would I need to temporarily install X and other gui libs for compiling, then uninstall them? 2) For (say) 8 nodes, would a 100Mbit/s LAN be fast enough, or should I stick a second NIC into my workstation and run 4 nodes off each NIC? 3) Has anyone done any metrics on renderfarm performance? For example, is there a linear relationship between render speed and aggregate processor power? 4) What's the optimal ratio of memory to processor for a renderfarm node? What I'm thinking is that too much memory for the processor could be a waste, while not enough memory would have it RAM-bound. 5) Apart from the disk space needed for software/swap, how much minimum free disk space should be present on each node for temporary file storage? 6) Any other performance/reliability/tuning considerations, to get the best outcome? Cheers David _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
