Just to clarify, what I find attractive is the fact that with the right setup you can literally just plug a machine into a switch on your network and it will boot up as a rendernode with zero intervention needed. You can get a machine to a usable state with a few minutes of taking it out of the box.
There was a company attempting to market this kind of solution a while back, but I guess they didn't get much demand and stopped http://web.archive.org/web/20100523212259/http://www.linuxrenderfarm.com/renderfarmer/render-farm-software-overview.html A more modern generic alternative that could be used as a base would be Razor. http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-razor-a-next-generation-provisioning-solution/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR1bOg0IU5U Of course, all these things require some solid sys-admin work to implement. Seems like the future to me though. DAN On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Sandy Sutherland <[email protected] > wrote: > Dan, > > I seem to recall so - let me check with my awesome IT guy back home and I > will let you know the details. > > S. > > > On 17/05/2013 14:07, Dan Yargici wrote: > > Is that a PXE boot-type solution Sandy? I looked into the idea a while > back, it still seems like an awesome solution for renderfarms. I'd love to > hear more. > > DAN > > > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Sandy Sutherland < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> At Triggerfish my IT guy had setup a kickstart sytem that deployed both a >> Linux setup to our render nodes and a windows one to the workstations. If >> you like I can find out the procedure to do it. It did work very well, >> especially on the Linux side, we could build a render node complete in >> about 10 - 15 mins ready to render again. >> >> S. >> >> >> On 16/05/2013 19:04, Francois Lord wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> In my never ending quest to find a way to install Softimage >>> automatically and simply on all machines, I have yet again hit a road block. >>> Last year, after several days of failed attempts, I resorted to >>> installing it manually on my machine and copying the folder on the other >>> machines. I had to copy the ProductInformation.pit file from C:\Program >>> Data and I had to run the runonce.bat file. And then all was well and >>> dandy. Easily scriptable and no human intervention required. >>> >>> This year however, things seem different. When I do the same, Softimage >>> can't find a license. This is where the ProductInformation.pit file was >>> required last year, but it seems it's not enough now. >>> >>> I noticed there is a new License.env file in the Application\bin folder. >>> But it contains the right informations about our license server since I ran >>> the installer on my machine. I don't know if it has anything to do with all >>> this. >>> >>> Any one has bits of info on this? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> Francois >>> >> >> > >
