On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:49:41AM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:59:00AM +0800, Benj wrote (wyy sez): > > However, there are commercial rendering software packages available > > that distributes the rendering tasks to multiple machines. My > > own question is would a cluster of, say, 10 machines render 10 > > scenes faster than would 10 machines managed by a commercical > > render manager rendering the same number of scenes? The difference > > between the two, as you know, is that the cluster combines the cpu > > power of the 10 machines while the render manager distributes the > > 10 scenes evenly to the 10 render machines which renders separately. > > Both groups of machines have the same specs, btw. > > > ??? the cluster does what the render manager is doing with lesser > over head. meaning... when a cluster renders images it chops up the > images into ity-bity pieces and farms it out. the benefit of a > cluster setup is that it has less overhead. the beowulf cluster does > not combine CPU or computing resources together it still farms > out processes.
If 1 scene is passed to the cluster of 10 machines, won't the whole cluster work on it with 10 machines simultaneously rendering the single scene? I thought a cluster can do this, acting as a supercomputer from the combined cpu power of the separate machines. Hmmm, maybe I hit on a common misconception. Thanks for clearing this up. -- Benjamin Oris Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ImagineAsia, Inc. http://www.imagineasia.com/ A Digital Animation Studio (632) 717 1111 loc. 222 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
