Bennington College Render Farm

2011

I set up a distributed render farm for my schools animation department using the open source platform DrQueue and DrQueueOnRails. Currently running on 7 intel macs.

In the process of creating a dynamic cluster, if any animation lab computer becomes idle for a period of time, it then boots up and joins the render cluster. If at anytime one of these computers is needed for student use, it will quit the render process, requeue the frame and exit out of the cluster.