[Randy Esulto]

Thanks Jerry. It just seems that this tutorial, like many others I’ve seen, focus on how to create a cluster from a multi-core machine and then render a job on that machine. What I am attempting to do is network several multi-core machines and have all the processors within each machine function as a cluster. Unfortunately, there seems to be very little information on how to accomplish this.

I think that a big part of the challenge is where the files are stored (both the source files and the temp files that compressor creates).

From what I understand, the most efficient approach is to choose a location accessible to all the machines on the network. So, I set up a NAS. However, Qmaster doesn’t allow me to specify the NAS as the cluster storage. So, I set it to it’s default value of /var/spool/qmaster.

When I submit a job to compressor and it begins to process, it seems to hang and display “waiting” for an extended period of time.