What is the Render Farm

I had some questions. What is ”2 CPU Render Farm - remote processing of rendering” and where can I download it and for what I can use it?

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on January 8, 2013 at 6:25am

The Render Farm is an add-on for rendering which lets you use multiple computers to get your rendering done faster. If you have two fairly powerful computers, then the 2-CPU farm will achieve a speed increase. But you will see the best improvement if you can use with more machines. Your rendering task is divided between the farm machines, but because of the time used to transfer the geometry to be rendered between the machines, and then to reassemble the final image, two machines will render faster than one machine - nut not twice as fast.

You can download the Render Farm from here: Download

And you can read more about it here: Render Farm

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on January 8, 2013 at 6:30am

"Help. I purchased render farm but I can't seem to get it to work. I tried to follow the download but the page doesn't have render farm on it. I searched your site and found a link to render farm on the accurender site. Is this the correct site? I installed this version on a 32 bit OS and on a 64 bit OS machine. Neither would accept the authorization key. Does the farm need to run on identical OS? "

Yes the Download on the McNeel site is the proper render farm. Send a copy of your key to sales@renderplus.com, and we will make sure that it works properly with the latest farm software.

Installing and Configuring the Render Farm

Create a shared folder for use by the render farm. (Create a folder on a machine which is accessable by all the other machines which will process or use the Render Farm)

All of the network rendering computers must have read/write access to this folder. The shared folder should have a lot of available disk space to store both data (input) and images (output.) 20 - 200 GB of available storage are recommended. You must perform the following four steps on each computer you plan to use in the render farm, including any nXt workstations which will submit jobs to the render farm:

Install the nXt Render Farm Software.
From the Start menu, run the Render Farmer on each machine. The Render Farmer will appear as an icon in the system tray.
Right click on the icon and select Restore. A window title nXt Farmer should appear.
Select Options→Path… from the menu and select the path to the render farm. The Farmer window can now be minimized to the tray.

The Render Farm is now configured. To verify that the farmer machines are responding run the Render Farm Monitor from the Start menu on any of the workstations. The machines should appear in the Configure Machines window. If you wish to exclude a machine from participating in the render farm, you can select it, right click, and choose Suspend.