don't go to some vendor of a render farm "solution". that's going to get you huge ovehead$$$, service contracts, no flexibility etc. you got 20 boxes... that's totally doable with one of the little render managers that are out there. I would go over to creative crash and look around. I think one is called smedge. there is…
Hey guys, work is having me put together some render farm ideas. And wanted to see what you guys thought. It mostly exterior Archtectual work we do. But may down the road do some realflow or fume fx sims Right now we have 10 dell PC's acting as our farm. And we would like to get 10 to 20 processors, i7 quads cores or xeon…
i see, well I would still stay away from a "render farm solution provider" if you can. especially if you already have your software pipeline straight which you seem to have. I would get the specs on some of the servers your looking at boxx etc, and see if you can find someone local to build the blades/rack you want.…
Hello, I currently have 2 computers, my desktop and my laptop, with 10 combined processor cores. The new laptop is running Win 8.1 but my desktop is running Win 7. Can I set up Backburner to work properly with this configuration? Are there any alternatives you might suggest? For some reason the Server app doesn't open on…
im not sorry worried about the manager software so much at this point more wondering about hardware and cost. And backburner has been enough for us, although I know there are better software. Thanks grey. I saw www.acea.com as well