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  Qmaster Help

  Posted by Shane Mcgee on September 16, 2008 at 7:29 pm

  i did a search and didnt really find anything that answered my question…

  ok so basically, as i gather, Qmaster allows you to team together multiple computers on a network to compress files much quicker than the one computer by itself. i have my macbook pro which im using to edit, but i also have a mac mini upstairs…could that be used to work with my macbook pro as a “cluster” to make stuff go faster?

  Alan Okey replied 17 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  September 16, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  Shane,

  You don’t really have the horsepower necessary to gain any real benfits. If Mac Minis truly did the job there would be loads of Mac Mini render farms all over. There is no free lunch in this business…

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  Shane Mcgee

  September 16, 2008 at 7:54 pm

  yeah, gotcha. well i dont really plan to try it anyways just because im on a wireless network and that is apparently not a great idea for this type of thing.

  BUT! thats a very cool thing to keep in mind for the future. good to know what it actually does.
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  Alan Okey

  September 16, 2008 at 9:47 pm

  [David Roth Weiss] “If Mac Minis truly did the job there would be loads of Mac Mini render farms all over.”

  FYI: A small Mac Mini render farm was used on David Fincher’s Zodiac.

  https://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/0307/cover_story.htm

  “An X-Serve render node was benchmarked against a Mac Mini and we discovered that the Mini did 50 percent of the work at 10 percent of the cost.”

  True enough, a single Mac Mini wouldn’t be of much use. But ten of them? Now you’re talking!

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