Greetings,
Myself and a friend of mine are starting an "on the side" rendering company. We are both intern architects with experience using 3dsmax 2009 (and earlier versions). Our decision to start this company stems from the lack of hardware investment at the office.
And so we managed to gather 2500$ for computers. I will be in charge of setting this up, and I'm thinking of getting 2 computers (Q9550). I would like to set up a small render farm using the two machines, but have no idea how to accomplish this (failed miserably using backburner at work...).
Only one license of 3dsmax will be purchased, but I understand that any install in a render farm only requires one seat. So one computer will be the workstation where we work and render from. The other computer will only be used to render. Here are a few questions:
1. Any basic info on setting up a small render farm with 2 computers?
2. Will the second computer require a monitor?
3. Is backburner the only way to setup a rendering farm between two computers?
Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated as I have no networking experience (but trying to learn)...
Cheers,
J
Myself and a friend of mine are starting an "on the side" rendering company. We are both intern architects with experience using 3dsmax 2009 (and earlier versions). Our decision to start this company stems from the lack of hardware investment at the office.
And so we managed to gather 2500$ for computers. I will be in charge of setting this up, and I'm thinking of getting 2 computers (Q9550). I would like to set up a small render farm using the two machines, but have no idea how to accomplish this (failed miserably using backburner at work...).
Only one license of 3dsmax will be purchased, but I understand that any install in a render farm only requires one seat. So one computer will be the workstation where we work and render from. The other computer will only be used to render. Here are a few questions:
1. Any basic info on setting up a small render farm with 2 computers?
2. Will the second computer require a monitor?
3. Is backburner the only way to setup a rendering farm between two computers?
Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated as I have no networking experience (but trying to learn)...
Cheers,
J