Is anyone out there using SLurm in conjunction with Renderpal http://www.renderpal.com/http://www.renderpal.com/
Forestalling the obvious replies... yes I know that a render farm manager and a scheduler do basically the same thing. In a rational universe I would be using one or 'tother. Perhaps in the next life... The concept at the moment is to run the Renderpal server, which is a Windows application and it can detect the Linux render clients via a 'heartbeat' mechanism. I would spawn the Linux clients as needed via slurm. Thinking out loud, I could use slurm to run render clients on all compute nodes in the cluster, then use job preemption to kill the jobs when other compute jobs need the nodes. I guess that very much risks 'live' Renderpal jobs being killed off. Any experiences in this area gratefully received. John H Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Employees of XMA Ltd are expressly required not to make defamatory statements and not to infringe or authorise any infringement of copyright or any other legal right by email communications. Any such communication is contrary to company policy and outside the scope of the employment of the individual concerned. The company will not accept any liability in respect of such communication, and the employee responsible will be personally liable for any damages or other liability arising. XMA Limited is registered in England and Wales (registered no. 2051703). Registered Office: Wilford Industrial Estate, Ruddington Lane, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7EP
