Re: [Condor-users] Condor for a renderfarm

[Horvátth Szabolcs <szabolcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does this seem like a good use for condor?
>   
Yes. But keep in mind that you'll have to create both start scripts and 
a GUI to start and mange your renders, and that might be more work than 
necessary.
If you have off the shelf, free options than setting up condor for 
rendering just a few shots might be overkill.

> - Is the data that needs to be read for each frame likely to be a
> problem (assuming that normal file copy isn't prohibitively slow).
>   
Thats not a problem if you have fast network / server. And large amount 
of texture maps can be synchronized to the render machines to ease
the network bandwidth, its likely that reading textures will the be the 
majority of the IO.
> - Has anyone here used condor for a renderfarm before? is there any advice you can give?
>   
Yes, used it for the last four years. Its cool but you have to do lots 
of scripting to get the functionality of a special purpose render manager.

Cheers,
Szabolcs