• Apple OS X

  Networked rendering

  Posted by Colin on September 8, 2005 at 4:38 pm

  Hi,

  Anybody know any means to utilise the processing power of a number of Macs by networking them together through ethernet or Firewire?
  I think one can do this through using an X serve + the software Xgrid – but this is way beyond my budget. Surely there is some simple software utility that one can use to assign rendering tasks to another computer on ones existing network ?

  Thansk in advance for any advice offered.

  Colin

  Colin replied 20 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tony! Hulette

  September 8, 2005 at 7:11 pm

  The applications need to support network rendering in most cases. After Effects already has a solution for this, as do some 3D applications. You might want to check with your software developer to see if they have a solution for you. It would help to tell us what application/s you’d like to use network rendering with.

  Tony!
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  Colin

  September 8, 2005 at 9:18 pm

  Tony,

  I’m using Final Cut Pro + Compressor [ Apple] + Photoshop + PTMac.

  Regards,

  Colin

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