 | | | Re: Network rendering problem....this might be one for the Eovia dudes | Re: Network rendering problem....this might be one for the Eovia dudes 2005-10-07 - By Andrew
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Probably not the best person to voice an option, since I don't have
Carrara up on my network (which is currently down), but here are a
view ideas:
Carrara's network is seen as a worm type virus by anti-virus programs.
You will need to either disable the worm protection or turn off the
anti-virus to make the program not hang up.
You should double check all plugins are also installed on all nodes
machines. Weird stuff can happen if you are using a plug-in on the
main machine but it's not available on the node.
All nodes have to be the same on every computer. Also, You might have
a process using the default 5020 node already on one of your machines.
Try using a different node value, which would be the same on all
machines.
Give it time. If you have some heavy textures or other data from the
main machine to the little nodes, there will be a visible delay
between startups of the nodes (and they all don't start at the same
time, from my understanding). Henceforth, you'll see one machine at a
time gets a new render block.
Simple scenes or scenes that render too quickly will not invoke the
nodes, because the main machine finished it all before the other nodes
were ready to join in. -- test with high settings and caustics etc to
lengthen the render times.
Thats all I can suggest. I'll have to deffer to a more techy-type to
more specific answer.
AWBenson
--- In Carrara@(protected), "Leviathan" <LST_5@(protected)> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Well after a loooong time away for any 3d work, (far too long IMO)
> I'm finally back at it. I've been working on an animation these past
> couple weeks and in preperation for the inevitable long render I've
> been doing a little upgrading. I finally took the plunge and put a
> second processor into each of my (two) machines.
>
> Firstly I want to say "Wow, my hat is off to the people at Eovia!
> ". The preformance increase with a second processor is astounding! I'm
> rendering in anywhere from 1/4 to 1/5th of the time it would take
> with just one processor (I did some benchmarking with and without the
> second processor.) Like I said...astounding....I don't know how you
> did it Eovia...but I love it!
>
> Anyway...getting on to my problem, network rendering...it's always
> worked for me in Windows 98SE, but since I upgraded to Windows 2000 it
> doesn't seems to work (the Windows upgrade and the addition of the
> second CPU were practically simultainous...I never tried network
> rendering with just single CPU's). Sooo...here's what's happening:
>
> - I launch the render from the batch renderer (with net rendering
> checked of course).
> - The scene file loads on the host machine.
> - The render starts on the host machine whilst the scene file starts
> loading on the render node machine.
> - Once the render node machine finishes loading the scene file it
> basically stops and does nothing...i.e. no "N" blocks start on the
> host machine.
> - If I abort the render then I receive this message: "Unable to
> connect to render node located on () on port 5060"
> - Now I checked the ports on the host (5020, 5040, 5060) and render
> node (5020).
> - My regular Windows network (file sharing etc) works fine.
> - And all firewalls (that I know of...i.e. Zone Alarm) were turned
> off.
>
> What did I miss? Thanks everyone...I want to get this fixed so I
> can get my animation all rendered off...then I might even upload it
> for y'all.
>
> Leviathan
>
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