Apple Shake Distributed Rendering (10.2) - Manual (Page 3)

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Sample Setup for Part-Time Rendering on Desktop Computers
In this sample setup, five computers act as both the clients (user workstations from which
users submit Shake jobs for distributed rendering) and the cluster computers (which do the
rendering). Each computer has an additional volume, such as a FireWire drive, that is used
for media before and after it is rendered, and for the associated Shake scripts.
The steps that follow describe how to configure the desktop rendering environment shown
above. They assume that these computers are already connected to each other on a network.
Network
FireWire
drive
FireWire
drive
FireWire
drive
FireWire
drive
FireWire
drive
Each computer acts as:
• A Shake Qmaster client that sends Shake jobs for rendering
• A service node that performs distributed rendering
All source and output files are stored on the FireWire drives.
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