OSCAR is a collection of best practices for cluster deployment/usage - it contains everything you need to get started on a cluster. OSCAR makes it really simple to create images to push to your client nodes, and also provides tools manage your clusters once it has been deployed.
For your case, after you have successfully built the cluster, you can just install those rendering software on the client nodes (I don't know too much about them, but I would assume that you just install an 'RPM' of these applications on the client nodes or just copy the binary directory).
openPBS/MAUI is useful for scheduling your jobs. The most simple explanation is for instance you have 25 nodes (computers), and you wanted to do 30 separate rendering jobs. So you would submit these 30 jobs to the resource manager (openPBS) and MAUI (the scheduler) would schedule it to be run on the cluster. Since you only have 25 nodes available, only 25 of the 30 jobs will be run, and the remaining 5 will be put on a queue and executed when resources are available (when 5 of the initial jobs finish successfully).
Again I don't know too much about those rendering applications to know whether they can be executed in parallel, but if they can be broken down into separate jobs and run in a 'parallel fashion', the OSCAR setup would allow you to do this pretty painlessly. You might need to write some parallel program to wrap what you want to do (like PVM/MPI).
(Of course if all these applications only run on Windows, none of this is going to help you, I think ;-) )
Hope this information helps.
Cheers,
Bernard
dg wrote:
thx for the answer!
well I not sure I have understand your email.....I need to check firat what is openPBS and MAUI mean.
I read on the net that a cluster is network of boxes that can act as a bis system....so the idea was, to make a renderfarm and look how it works.
as you can think I am very new in this thing....and its very heavy to find informations about clusters on the internet.....and the papers I foud till not are rally hard to understand because they are written f�r programmers.
my simply question is. is there any cluster software, I can just install on my boxes, then install a rendersoftware (like renderman, BMRT or MentalRay) and say.......render this animation over the cluster!
and all this, without writing my own tool or any other things?
thx
dg
Bernard Li wrote:
What sort of software are you talking about here? OSCAR provides batch system (openPBS) and scheduler (MAUI) which is useful for renderfarm.
Other additional software you can easily install to your cluster nodes using the c3 toolset.
Cheers,
Bernard
dg wrote:
hi...
looks like oscar is not the right software for a renderfarm.....so anybody knows a cluster software that is good to use it for a renderfarm?
thx dg
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