Mini Render Farm (PIC)

[Brad Gosse]

Just showing off this little render farm (G5 cluster) I built to improve video compression speeds.

Apple has a great program called Qmaster which allows you to team lot's of macs together into one super computer.

[Nastyman!]

That looks awesome & expensive.

[crockett]

very nice, I hope you added a A/C duct into that closet. I haven't done a lot of video editing but I used to do a lot of 3d work and I know rendering is a bitch.. Would have loved to have had that set up back then.

[ElvisManson]

what kind of improvements are you seeing in terms of render times?

does it help encoding times too?

[candyflip]

Jealousy is rearing it's ugly head here.

[Brujah]

Sweet.. give us some stats comparisons on speeds and such

[The Duck]

that looks so expensive

[G-Rotica]

very nice, I hope you added a A/C duct into that closet.

Ditto that. overheating would suck in there.

[mrkris]

With the prices of your average x86 hardware and linux you could build that cluster for prolly 1/5th of what you spent for that cluster. Regardless, it looks awesome, congrats :D

[EZRhino]

Great setup hope you have a way to exhaust the heat.
Congrats

[martinsc]

looks like a sweet setup...
i hope it's cooled enough...

[Brad Gosse]

I have 2 vents in the closet and the door stays open all the time.

These 7 macs are in addition to the other G5's and other macs on desks in the office.

There are 10 machines in the farm.

2 weeks of encoding now takes just over 48 hours. It was the speed improvement we needed.

[Manowar]

God damn, very nice

[Phoenix]

wow...nice setup

[StuartD]

porn never had it so good

[tyler.]

wow ! thats awesome !

[majorbitch]

There goes 20k ?

Damn.

[Pete-KT]

Very nice lookin

[After Shock Media]

I seriously read this thread title as "Mini Reindeer Farms (PIC)".

[QTbucks_Mark]

Just showing off this little render farm (G5 cluster) I built to improve video compression speeds.

Looks like a really nice setup you have there. What are you using it for? Rendering HD video with FC, some Shake jobs or something completely different?

Just started to take a look at the Qmaster manual...

[Brad Gosse]

Mainly for Compressor encoding. It helps with HD but it's also a big help when you have thousands of hours of video to compress into many clips in different formats. It essentially breaks each vid up into as many equal parts as you have machines and let's each one process that chunk, the management app does all the work of splitting it up and re-assembling it.

They are on a gigabit switch and each one has 2 gigabit NIC's connected maximizing throughput between machines.

[WiredGuy]

That looks awesome
WG

[madawgz]

what a fucking serious setup!

[eviltang]

Mainly for Compressor encoding. It helps with HD but it's also a big help when you have thousands of hours of video to compress into many clips in different formats. It essentially breaks each vid up into as many equal parts as you have machines and let's each one process that chunk, the management app does all the work of splitting it up and re-assembling it.

They are on a gigabit switch and each one has 2 gigabit NIC's connected maximizing throughput between machines.

Very Nice, how much did it all run you?

[QTbucks_Mark]

Mainly for Compressor encoding. It helps with HD but it's also a big help when you have thousands of hours of video to compress into many clips in different formats. It essentially breaks each vid up into as many equal parts as you have machines and let's each one process that chunk, the management app does all the work of splitting it up and re-assembling it.

That's exactly what I would need right now... if it wasn't for the lack of money... damn!

They are on a gigabit switch and each one has 2 gigabit NIC's connected maximizing throughput between machines.

Is that one of the smaller Linksys switches I see there? Does it support jumbo-frames?
If you have an isolated network you might want to try switching to bigger packets (9000 instead of 1500), as it may give you quite a performance boost, depending on your application. Just my

[Niko Bimini]

I seriously read this thread title as "Mini Reindeer Farms (PIC)".

Me too!

I was thinking "Cool pics of mini reindeer! Let me check that out."

[Brad Gosse]

QTbucks_Mark

That is a Linksys gigabit switch, the network traffic is not too bad because the compression process is slower than the network.

I will try the packet size change tho ;) thanks

[Pornwolf]

Very nice Brad.

[Morgan]

I seriously read this thread title as "Mini Reindeer Farms (PIC)".

hahahah that's awesoem

[GTS Mark]

Looking good Howard Hughes!



DH

[tony286]

very very cool but seems like overkill for porn do you do mainstream also?

[loverboy]

awesome setup, i do hope u have enough cooling system in place

[xNetworx]

Thats wicked man

[djroof]

wow man, great work!

[Grapesoda]

very nice, I hope you added a A/C duct into that closet. I haven't done a lot of video editing but I used to do a lot of 3d work and I know rendering is a bitch.. Would have loved to have had that set up back then.

that's what i'm thinkin' . . heat baby . . . oh yeah . .

[cranki]

that's a combined gazillion gigahertz!

[Scott McD]

Dayyuumm that shits pimp !!

[hova]

looks nice

[teg0]

Impressive. Would work great for rendering 3D animations as well.

[Vitasoy]

Damn that looks sweet

[Grapesoda]

I seriously read this thread title as "Mini Reindeer Farms (PIC)".

me too

[SmokeyTheBear]

I seriously read this thread title as "Mini Reindeer Farms (PIC)".

your not alone..

[Shoehorn!]

Man that is so fucking awesome.

[Spunky]

Awesome looking set up ..very nice

[iWeb_Allan]

first reaction: WHOA!
impressive set-up you got there

[WWC-Pajio]

...very nice!!

[sniperwolf]

That looks really smart...

[gecko]

Sweet setup

[iWeb_Iya]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW, but surely It will cost me an arm and a leg

[SmokeyTheBear]

testing disregard