Workstation & Render Farm?

[dann_stubbs]

Originally posted by 3D Bandit
Ok, can I have Windows based workstations (with Maya) & a Linux based Render farm communicate with one another?

yes.

you can have any mix. the real issue is the render manager software. maya alone will not control any distributed rendering (except for irix with dispatcher)

dann

[alexx]

a side question here:

can you mix different renderfarm OSes with each other?
are the images really the same when rendered on different machines?
i remember in younger days there was that problem when rendering with lightwave on AMIGA and WIN mixed: there especially the fractals and AntiAliasing looked different due to different rounding algorithms and different bit-length of varables..

anyone experience with that?

cheers

alexx

[dann_stubbs]

Originally posted by alexx
a side question here:

can you mix different renderfarm OSes with each other?
are the images really the same when rendered on different machines?
i remember in younger days there was that problem when rendering with lightwave on AMIGA and WIN mixed: there especially the fractals and AntiAliasing looked different due to different rounding algorithms and different bit-length of varables..

anyone experience with that?

cheers

alexx

yes - the same rules apply.

under normal circumstance you can mix renders with mostly no image difference, but there are procedurals or other things like dynamics that will loook completely different on different processor types as well as OS's at times due to different math rounding etc etc...

so if you do a test and all is well - should be fine - but that mileage can vary between scenes and shaders. a harder thing lately is the different versions and variations of plugins or stuff like that across os types.

dann

[alexx]

thanx dann.
good to know for future hardware upgrades

cheers

alexx

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