Combustion Suite

[Anonymous]

Hey guys.

I’m setting up a combustion workstation to support our Smoke. It will be a dual G5 workstation with an Xraid attached via fiber. I also have two dual G5 Xserves that I would like to network render with. Would the Xserves need to access the raid via fiber? Or, would gigE be enough. I will be working with 1080 24p 8bit material. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

md

[bnw]

I would go with GigE – to attach them all to the RAID via fibre you’d need XSan and that gets expensive and complicated. You don’t really need the superfast interactivity you get with fibre for render nodes.

[summerJ]

and keep in mind that there is no backburner on a mac. so you have to build a workaround.

nanuk

[Scott]

No backburner? Bummer. What does it do exactly? Manage the nodes? Does anyone know a workaround? Thanks.

md

[david stanford]

…Hi!
Backburner is the network render manager for combustion, But I think it works
with more Autodesk´s products.
Check this:
http://images.autodesk.com/apac_grtrchina_main/files/overview_infra.pdf
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5562667
.:.A

[rizko angga]

I think on the mac as far as i know is your stuck with the renderque software, unless u got a pc version aswell, the renderque is not that bad if you have a few machines using it rendering every other frame it works well, especially if you have apple remote desktop, then you can set them all off and control them from one machine.

[chris]

more infor on backburner here>

http://www.visualz.com/free/down_on_the_farm.pdf

//gD

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