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Hi,

 

I got myself an old HP Proliant DL380 G7, with dual X5650s, 48GB Ram (Soon to be 96GB) and a bunch of SAS drives, which I am planning to use for rendering next to my WS.

My question is, how would I most efficiently use it for rendering if I decide to install Linux on it, while running Windows on my WS?

Currently I have all my projects and files on dropbox, but I am considering moving it all to a NAS in my network so that they can both run from that.

 

How would you guys setup that kind of rendering?

Does Hqueue support that right out of the box, or would something like Qube! be better?

 

Cheers,
Jonas

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I know that Qube!, Deadline, etc. supports path mapping which should make it all easier.
But Houdini Indie doesn't support 3rd party rendering, does that include managers like previously mentioned applications?

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  • 7 months later...

If you have a bunch of Linux render nodes it's worth the hassle of working around two different platforms. If it's just one render node then I'd use the same operating system on both. It'll save you a bunch of headaches.

One way to use it would be through a queue manager. You could also let Mantra distribute tiles across machines for large image renders.

mantra -H localhost,anotherhost,yetanother

You can put that into a Mantra output driver for the command parameter.

EDIT: Just realized this was a really old post. Sorry for bringing it back from the dead.

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