Slightly OT, QT presenting in h.264 codec

[Uli Plank]

Well, we are really happy with our render farm for Cinema4D, it’s up and running. Configuration was a snap with their excellent NETRender solution, once we learned to set it to the right ports. It can be acessed and administrated via internet.

Now that we are not stacking them any more, our DuoCore Minis run like a charm, they are neither overheating nor having any problem with their harddisks (knock on wood). The Duo runs at 188% of a single core, that’s even better than a dual G5 (only 176%), must be very efficient code.

All of this applies to 3D, where traffic is relatively low as opposed to CPU times, making net rendering very efficient.

We did some tests with QMaster, but that was not very impressive. A visible gain over one local Quad was achieved only with three or more Minis, while one Mini is rendering 3D as well as one dual G5 2GHz. Well, after all rendering MPEG-2 or H.264 is much more traffic intensive than 3D.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.