On Tuesday 10 Jan 2006 10:00 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 05:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *OpenMosix will not work with maya/mental ray Render Farm. > > Please elaborate your reply. From what I gather Rony is thinking of > setting up a SunGrid cluster. I dunno if he is going to use Maya or > Mental Ray...
Sorry for confusion. Maya,mental ray and XSI(softimage) are quite popular software for animation application. I guess many animation companies must be using these software for front end drawing work and backend rendering work. I had tested openmosix for maya/mental ray/XSI about two years ago but it did not work. If I remember correctly following was the reason. At that time openmosix had some problem migrating processes those use mmap system call. I have not checked openmosix after that. Situation might have changed. So make a note if you are setting up cluster for render farm. After that I used Sun Grid Engine and found it very good in performance and stability. We made about 5-6 clusters for render farm. Each cluster having about 25 machines with two xeon processors and 2 GB RAM. NFS with async option was used. regards -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
