From: Antoine Durr <antoine@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: dynamically balance renderfarm between 3D and comp renderings
   Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:07:04 -0400
Msg# 2246
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I've tried to do something similar by dynamically changing the hosts file, resetting which machines are in what groups.  The problem from what I could see was that the list of hosts for a particular group are dereferenced at submission time, i.e.', when the job is submitted, the job runs on m1, m2, and m3, not 'comphosts'.  Thus a running job's host set would not be adjusted just because you changed the members of 'comphost'.

-- Antoine

On Jun 15, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Abraham Schneider wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Hi!

At the moment, we use different render machines for 3D and comp =
renderings (3DS Max/Vray and Nuke), which is not a perfect solution for ="">the size of our company. So I'm thinking about using one renderfarm for ="">all, managed by Rush. Now there is one question:

How would it be possible with Rush to dynamically balance the amount of =
machines that are rendering 3D and comp setups based on current needs =
and/or time of day? During normal working hours, it would be helpful to =
designate more machines to Comp renderings, at night all the machines =
should render 3D. This could be done with normal priority and grouping =
functions of Rush. But sometimes it would be helpful to temporarily use =
more machines for 3D during normal working hours.

Are there any concepts for re-prioritize already running jobs in a =
global way? Something like a big percentage slider where I can manually =
change the proportion and all the running and queued jobs will use this =
new setting?

Hope this makes any sense. But I'm absolutely open for any better =
solution/way to deal with the limited amount of renderers we have, using =
them effectively for 3D AND comp.


Thanks, Abraham


Abraham Schneider
Senior VFX Compositor
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ARRI Film & TV Services GmbH
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Phone +49 89 3809-1269

EMail aschneider@(email surpressed)
www.arri.de/filmtv
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-- Antoine Durr
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