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  1. I Have access to around 60 HP compaq Dc5850 computers (Computer shopper has a review on the same model) that are used at my school for the engineering program. Each computer runs 2010 autodesk inventor, mechanical, and a couple of others modeling programs. I am able to network all the computers, to use as a renderfarm (The 60 computers are in two labs, each lab has all the computers connected by a ethernet switcher). During my first try, I used luxrender to render a sample scene on 30 computers, with luxrender's built in networking tool. I was told that this built in method is bad for render farm managment, as a lot of time is spent sending fragments of files. I wrote a program that takes a central server that distributes frames to render to the clients, and the result is saved on a shared network drive (these computers have a mac server). I can't post links, so PM me if you want a link. If you go to the blender artists website, news and discussion, page two, its called luxrender tools, by rp181. I have not tested this yet on the computers to guage the improvment, but in the meanwhile, what software should I use to render on farms (I use blender)? Why kind of farm managment is best?
  2. Hello all, I was able to get a old IBM Intellistation from a closing office. It is the model here: Can't post links, It is a IBM intellistation m pro 6850-67U. PCmag has a review on it. This computer, due to its age, is very poor in performance, the only reason that it is better then my normal computer is the graphics card (Nvidia quadro 900 XGL). This computer has: 2x 2ghz xeon processors 1GB DIMM (takes 4GB) 18GB SCSI hard drive (takes 6 internal, 6 external) Graphics card mentioned above This sounded decent at first glance, but due to the old technology, is quite bad. A benchmark put this at 1 GFLOP, my pentium 4 beats that. What can I do to improve this, or should I scrap it? If I do not make this suitable for animation (I use blender), I will turn it into a FTP server for my website.
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