Red Render Farm

[Deanan]

here's a script to generate new QT refs in a directory:
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#!/bin/tcsh

#usage: makerefs search directory

find $1 -name "*_001.R3D" -print >> /tmp/filelist.$$

foreach i (`cat /tmp/filelist.$$`)
echo Making refs for $i
./REDline -i $i -w2 --useMeta
end
rm /tmp/filelist.$$

[Deanan]

and another script to take an FCP EDL and make a copy list (for copying only the shots in an EDL to say a scratch system). It just generates a list of copy commands but could be modified easily to just copy directly.

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#!/bin/tcsh

#usage: cpfind edl destination_dir commands_file search_directory

find $4 -name "*.RDC" -print >> /tmp/filelist.$$

touch $3
foreach i (`grep "FROM CLIP NAME" $1 | cut -d"-" -f 2 | cut -d"_" -f 2-4 | sort | uniq`)
echo -n Looking for $i
set found=`grep $i /tmp/filelist.$$`
if (`grep -c $i list` != 0) then
echo -n " "
echo Found: $found
echo -n "cp -r " >> $3
echo -n \"$found\" >> $3
echo -n " " >> $3
echo -n \"$2\" >> $3
echo >> $3
else
echo " ...Not Found"
endif
end
rm /tmp/filelist.$$

[Deanan]

you get the idea... quite easy to extrapolate that into whatever you need.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

thanks Jeff hope you could do something about this i am really interrested
having small farm with running cows in it .:)

Take a look at Butterfly Net Render from Liquid Dream Solutions. The "Pro" version and support for 5 render nodes is $125, or 15 nodes for $375. It has multiple jobs / batches, priority, etc.. You can access render services via internet / WAN. ...Keep your farm at home base, submit jobs from your notebook on-set, provided you can transfer R3D files over that fast. Hehe.

[jtcoleman]

REDline is available now for OSX and will be for Win/Lin soon.

Most network render node management softwares will allow you to customize for REDline and set up your network render pipeline. Qube! and Alienbrain should be easily adapted to support REDline. I use ButterflyNetRender for LightWave and XSI and it will work with REDline too.. I'm also thinking Spider (from the defunct Station-X) would be easily adapted too. I'll ask the guy who holds the source code if he's interested. That could be a nice free option for a lot of individual RED owners looking to set up a small farm.

I havent done a lot of batch work with Alienbrain, but I find the GUI system to be a bit slow / cumbersome, especially with larger directory trees. I know that you can go "under the curtain" and adjust the files in the working directories, but unlike subversion (or similar) I don't know of any way to initiate checkin or checkout proceedures outside of the GUI. (Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with it, though.)

JT
Austin, Texas

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

Take a look at Butterfly Net Render from Liquid Dream Solutions. The "Pro" version and support for 5 render nodes is $125, or 15 nodes for $375. It has multiple jobs / batches, priority, etc.. You can access render services via internet / WAN. ...Keep your farm at home base, submit jobs from your notebook on-set, provided you can transfer R3D files over that fast. Hehe.

thanks Jeff iam amazed about NODES
it is not too much coast .
then where is the coast will gonna be ( on computer units connected to it)?
so let's say i want to build 10 cows farm so all i need id
10 pc's 10 *2k usdollars =20 k
or
10 mac's 10* 4k = 40 k
is it correct ??

[Sunshine Whitton]

Sweet! Thanks for that! I can definitely use these scripts... I see how you can extrapolate that in order to push cpu intensive redline tasks to other macs say over ssh...

I'll look into the software solution as well. Very cool.

[laguun]

thanks Jeff iam amazed about NODES
it is not too much coast .
then where is the coast will gonna be ( on computer units connected to it)?
so let's say i want to build 10 cows farm so all i need id
10 pc's 10 *2k usdollars =20 k
or
10 mac's 10* 4k = 40 k
is it correct ??

bassam, macs are pcs.
only important difference is the operating system.

while the macpros are great machines, for a renderfarm they are certainly not a good choice. to large, to many options you don´t need, etc etc.

for a renderfarm you can easily run osx on usual pcs - depending on your local laws. DISCLAIMER: In germany its legal, even when apple does not allow it, as long you don´t patch it. In other nation laws are stricter and you are not allowed, so make sure that your planning is according to local law.

ideal in the backbones would be linux naturally - as it has much lower cost than the os from apple or microsoft.

our configuration in the renderfarms, which we think is the "sweetspot".
quadcore intel 2.4/2.5 cpu: 200-250 euro.
solid actual motherboard with dual gigabit-lan and onbaord graphics: 100 euro
4 GB ram: 80-90 euro
19´ 1/2he case: 50-100 euro
500 watt poer supply: 50-100 euro

so, you look at a total of 500-600 euro per quadcore unit, or, in $€, ~125-150$ per node. excluding OS, which will raise the price 0-50€ per node depending on your choice.

to speed up things a san storage is recommendable, but a dual gigabit attachement is not slowing things down tooo much until ~32 cores.

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

for a renderfarm you can easily run osx on usual pcs - depending on your local laws. DISCLAIMER: In germany its legal, even when apple does not allow it, as long you don´t patch it. In other nation laws are stricter and you are not allowed, so make sure that your planning is according to local law.

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thans for calculating this for me so
WHAT IS THE RELATION WITH LOCAL LAW HERE ?:sick:
is there is something agains law ?

[Dj Joofa]

for a renderfarm you can easily run osx on usual pcs - depending on your local laws. DISCLAIMER: In germany its legal, even when apple does not allow it, as long you don´t patch it. In other nation laws are stricter and you are not allowed, so make sure that your planning is according to local law.

OSX runs on Darwin, which is open source and freely available, thanks to Apple. I wonder if somebody has tried putting just Darwin and create render farms.