- Aug 1, 2013
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Hello everyone,
I'm new on this forum and I wanted to start a render farm. Since a few weeks I started using blender and the render times are really long... I had 3 or 4 unused pc's so I thought, why not build a render farm? Now the problem is that I can't find clear instructions anywhere! There are so many options, and I am not really into networking so I need some help here. My systems are:
Working laptop:
- i5-3317U 1.7 Ghz
- 4 Gb ram
- Gt 740m
Desktop:
- 3 Ghz pentium 4 (o.c. to 3.5 Ghz)
- 1.25 Gb ram
- Geforce MX 440 64 Mb
Desktop
- 1.8 Ghz Athlon XP
- 786 Mb ram
- Nvidia TNT 2 64 Mb
Laptop
- 1.8 Ghz Core 2 duo
- 3 Gb ram
- Intel integrated x3100 graphics
I want to use those pc's (and maybe one more) to render my scenes from blender. The options I saw were:
- Blender network render (but this does not allow me to use other engines such as cycles or LuxRender)
- Building a linux cluster (I have no idea how)
- Building a render farm with a que manager (also no idea...)
Also I wanted to start by installing linux, but there are so many versions! Can anyone help me by telling which option I should use and a how-to maybe? Thx alot!
I'm new on this forum and I wanted to start a render farm. Since a few weeks I started using blender and the render times are really long... I had 3 or 4 unused pc's so I thought, why not build a render farm? Now the problem is that I can't find clear instructions anywhere! There are so many options, and I am not really into networking so I need some help here. My systems are:
Working laptop:
- i5-3317U 1.7 Ghz
- 4 Gb ram
- Gt 740m
Desktop:
- 3 Ghz pentium 4 (o.c. to 3.5 Ghz)
- 1.25 Gb ram
- Geforce MX 440 64 Mb
Desktop
- 1.8 Ghz Athlon XP
- 786 Mb ram
- Nvidia TNT 2 64 Mb
Laptop
- 1.8 Ghz Core 2 duo
- 3 Gb ram
- Intel integrated x3100 graphics
I want to use those pc's (and maybe one more) to render my scenes from blender. The options I saw were:
- Blender network render (but this does not allow me to use other engines such as cycles or LuxRender)
- Building a linux cluster (I have no idea how)
- Building a render farm with a que manager (also no idea...)
Also I wanted to start by installing linux, but there are so many versions! Can anyone help me by telling which option I should use and a how-to maybe? Thx alot!
. In the near future I can probably add another desktop (Pentium D 2.8 Ghz, 8800 Gt) to it. I geuss that together is faster than my GT 740M? Anyway, I think I am going to start with this tutorial: 
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