Brooks Davis - FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster

[kudlatygosc]

Presentation interesting, but all those "ymmmm" are nuisance. Average 12 "ymmmm" per minute, which gives avg 1 per 5 secs. I challenge you to count them all.

[amerkert]

@kudlatygosc

"ymmmm"??? You mean um/ummmm right?

[Joe11Blue]

It is possible through emulation to run Window's on top of FreeBSD. However 3DS Max, note the S, is capable of exporting it's filesets to a FreeBSD cluster for rendering.

This is how most major production houses do it at least. I know Pixar runs a POSIX compliant OS, not sure which variant of *nix it is, but most likely it's a BSD derivative.

[lewaldman]

@Joe11Blue Pixar far sure runs a MacOS Rendering Cluster.

Don't forget that Steve jobs have mor then 51% of shares on the Pixar. (And that MacAs is POSIX compliant :P)

[Joe11Blue]

@lewaldman Pixar switched to Linux in 2005.

[lewaldman]

@Joe11Blue Wa... True.

Thanks for the correction! :))

[Joe11Blue]

@lewaldman Not a problem. I had to look it up myself LOL!

[humanPleiadian]

Is it possible to render with 3d max on a FreeBSD cluster?

[randomlaughingman]

you might find this helpful?,

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linuxrenderfarm(dot)com/render­farmer/renderfarmer-features(d­ot)html

[MikeyIckey]

Really interesting look @ what can be done with *BSD. Thanks for posting it!

[coditza]

High quality => better sound but blurred video. wtf?

[ascheepe]

nice cluster and a nice presentation about it, thanks!

It kinda reminds me of the time I had to drag a server with a sparking power supply out of our dc ;)