On 1/9/06, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
JTD wrote:
If you or anyone else has a cluster running somewhere for graphics, could I get a short writeup on the hardware used, how it is joined together (pc to pc) and just a wee bit on its software and setup. It is just for virtual practicals. :)
Rony there are only 2 large installations that I have seen. A render farm typically consist about a few tens to few hundreds of dual processor HT / xeon (em64t) class systems with some expensive display cards and atleast a few gigs of high speed ram . needless to say about raid sata / scsi disk .
say if there are 11 boxes the first box serves as the grid master with 10 boxes running the grid engine client. the master distributes the task to the clients . the task can be copied over a nfs share on a network . this is for a company that some real anim work for movies etc.
u can certainly setup a lowerend system for small testing etc ... sun grid engine project might be a nice place to start.
maybe sejal can do a write up once they are up
regards harsh
Thanks and Regards,
Rony.
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