Apple Qadministrator 4 - Manual (Page 5)

You can use This Computer Plus and QuickClusters for most distributed processing needs.
Apple Qadministrator allows you to manually create and manage specialized clusters.
This preface covers the following:
• About Apple Qadministrator (p. 5)
• About the Apple Qadministrator Documentation (p. 6)
• Additional Resources (p. 6)
About Apple Qadministrator
The Apple Qmaster distributed processing system provides an efficient solution to your
transcoding and rendering needs, handling all the work distribution and processing for
you, behind the scenes. Apple Qmaster and the Apple Qmaster features of Compressor
manage the processing across designated computers. They subdivide the work for speed,
route the work to the computers with the most available computing power, and direct
the processing.
The Apple Qmaster system uses the processing capacity of your network computers for
a wide range of tasks, including transcoding and rendering for digital visual effects software
packages such as Apple Shake, Adobe After Effects, and Autodesk Maya.
Compressor includes This Computer Plus and QuickCluster features that make it easy and
quick to set up a distributed processing system that meets the needs of most users. It
also includes Apple Qadministrator for those users in large facilities that need to set up
dedicated distributed processing systems shared with multiple clients.
Important: Apple Qadministrator 4 is designed to work closely with Final Cut Pro X and
later and Motion 5 and later. All mentions of Final Cut Pro and Motion in this document
refer to these versions.
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