Backburner, Remote Desktop, Render Farm - ISSUE

[glimpse]

thanks in addvance, Olitech!

always interested in some stuff..
before burning my own time =DDD..

[Olitech]

So we installed the 30-day trial version of Radmin and so far, it's working with Octane!

Installed the server on 4 render slaves and the viewer on a workstation this afternoon. Been waiting for it to crash or hang since about 3pm today. It's 9pm now, and the job is still rendering!

Will keep you posted in case something goes horribly wrong, but so far so good. WHEW.

best,
O

[machineyes]

Hey guys,

can someone tell me the setup of how you'd take advantage of using a remote setup with this various software? I work with a partner and we've been interested in setting up one of our computers with a GPU cluster but maybe we could utilize a remote desktop type of setup.

Thanks for your help!

[Olitech]

Hey guys,

can someone tell me the setup of how you'd take advantage of using a remote setup with this various software? I work with a partner and we've been interested in setting up one of our computers with a GPU cluster but maybe we could utilize a remote desktop type of setup.

Thanks for your help!

Hey there. The way we've set it up for our office is as follows:

We are trialing a remote desktop software called Radmin. We set up Radmin Servers on our render farm slaves, and Radmin Viewer on our workstations.

Technically, we still use Backburner to send our render jobs as usual. However, with Radmin, we can operate and maintain our render slaves if they fall asleep, crash, etc.

Both our workstations and render slaves run Octane Standalone and the Octane Max Plug. So we do our work in Max as usual, and send to Backburner as usual.

We've tried a few remote desktop options but found that Radmin was the most stable and operational of the options we've tried (Remote Desktop, VNC, TeamViewer).

Machineyes, for your intention, I would suggest installing Octane on both your render slave AND workstation. Simply due to the fact that any remote desktop application is still not as fast as working on your workstation and sending through backburner to your render slave.

There may be better solutions out there, but so far, this combination has been working for us. =)

best,
O