HOW TO BUILD A RENDER FARM?

[echy]

how to build a render server or render farm? 

[byalexandr]

That is such a broad question to begin with.

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, echy said:

how to build a render server or render farm? 

What renderer

 

What program?

 

What OS?

[LogicalDrm]

1. Build many servers
2. Install all of them same UNIX based OS and link them to main service somehow
3. Encage job for rendering on main service and let it allocate load over whole thing

About it as far as I have understood it.

[straight_stewie]

28 minutes ago, echy said:

how to build a render server or render farm? 

Well there's a few different ways. We need more information:

 

1. What program(s) are you using for your rendering?
2. What queue manager/parallel shell do you have experience with, if any?
3. How many machines do you have?
4. Are the machines identical?
5. Why do you need this?

[Emmien]

If you have not included the information required in your first post, I doubt you actually need a render farm.

 

You can pay a company to use their rendering servers to get something rendered quickly, if that is what you need. 

 

Unless you are going to be rendering out a lot, you probably would be fine with a single fast PC.

[samiscool51]

render server is probs better for you and is less expansive but can lose work if somehing went wrong

render farms are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and are a pain to set up

i would recermend a render server

to make one get a server and throw a GPU in it and install some type of render software and you are done

i would get a old sever from ebay and a titan x (maxwell, they are cheep at this time!) and call it a day!