Today, let’s talk about three managing
software of render farm.
Axceleon
Enfuzion
AE is a new-typed cluster technology, which
is the earliest managing software that set up cluster rendering. Enfuzion is
suitable for both small and large production company. So, render farms are generally have it.
Advantages:
1. Enfuzion has no limit for platforms, it
supports almost all the versions of Windows, Osx, Linux, including 64 bites
operating system. It can achieve the biggest hardware quality for newest 64
bites operating system.
2. Enfuzion could supports tile rendering, dividing
a high resolution frame onto several sections for rendering. And also set the
width of fusion edges, which is especially effective for complex computing and
film rendering. But this function is limited by render engine, it can only
supports Mental ray, Scan line render engine of Maya, and Renderman.
3. Enfuzion is also the excellent supporter
for Mental ray.
4. Image browser and thumbnail browser are convenient
for monitoring the rendering result of the online render farm, which is the unique function of Enfuzion that most people like.
PipelineFX
Qube
PipelineFX Qube had got the most attention
because of its noble birth and the experience of legendary. Early at 2001, square
USA constructed a render farm system of 1500
CPU, and they also developed SQB managing tool for the rendering tasks of Final
Fantasy and Hacker Empire. After that SQB released the commercial version,
which is known as Qube now.
Advantages:
1. There has a Multi-threaded administrator
technology in Qube.
2. Qube has fully integrated other
software, such as Maya, 3dmax, softimage IXSI After Effrct shake and Light
wave3d, etc.
Virtual
Vertex Muster
Muster is one of the software which own
graphical interface for managing tasks.
Advantages:
1. Support multi-platform, but should use Windows
NT/XP as renderer, Linux and Mac OSX is also good.
2. Support Maya, 3dmax, softimage
IXSI , After Effrct, shake, mental ray and so on. The price is also cheap.
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