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Help making a small personal renderfarm
Looking to increase my overall productivity, I would like to create a renderfarm at home.
I want to do this as cheap as possible.Anyone think the following is a safe approach? Suggestions and corrections welcome.
My plan is to buy a single copy of CINEMA 4D Studio Bundle.
Purchase a total of 8 dual-core intel based machines (with essentially the same cpu for render continuity).
1 Main/working PC and 7 render PCs.
XP Home or PRO on all.Install C4D Studio on the main PC. And install Net Render Server on this PC also.
Install Net Render Client on all PCs.Is that all that is needed?
Do I need to install my one copy of C4D Studio on my render machines to get all C4D-Modules to work?
(Is that proper)?It would be nice if my render nodes could be Linux based to save money on OS cost.
A Linux based C4D would be great overall too.Thanks in advance for your help,
TH
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You’ve pretty much got it. Studio Bundle comes with NET unlimited, so you can install on as many machines as you want. If memory serves, the installer should ask if you’re doing a regular install vs. a NET install. If not there should be instructions in the NET manual. If you have any plugins you will have to copy them to each client machine.
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Thanks Adam, you’re a Zeus amongst mortals.
It’s amazing to me that one can have so much power at their fingertips for rendering without having to buy multiple seats of software.
Maxon is amazing.
TH
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You might be better off in the long run going with MacPro hardware. You can buy a “family license” of MacOSX to run it on 5 computers, however, not that I’m encouraging it, but you do not need a serial# for Mac OSX as you do with Windows.
If you have any Windows software that you absolutely need to run, which does not have a Mac counterpart, you can run Windows on the Mac now as well, either within a window in OSX or boot into it.
Just a suggestion, but certainly one to look into.
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Tom,
Can you please update us on your progress for your render farm project? Which kind of processors did you choose and how much memory did you install in each node?Regards,
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I use any computers I have sitting around. I have 4 old laptops, they aren’t terribly fast and don’t render much…as well as a couple of old desktops. Overall, it helps with a big render and I didn’t have to spend any additional money. Just a thought.
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Hi Ernesto,
I don’t think I have the greatest network (yet) but, every machine I added to the network did wonders. I have six P4 machines (2.4G to 2.8G) each running XP pro with 1G ram. My work station (DualCore 1.86G + 2G Ram) is both the server and client. Total of 7 machines.
I do not know if this is possible but, I think a single machine with an I9 processor would replace my entire network. Anyone know if this is essentially equivalent?
Thanks.
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Hello,
I know this discussion a couple of years old but here is some information. Maybe it will help for others who want to build a nice render farm.
Check this website out:They are selling cases and farms too. I f you want to build one for example with 6x 4770 nodes it will working out about £3-4000 with case.
Nice looking case and looks very quiet.
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