I'm not shure, but I think there is no cross-plattform redering tool for Blender out there.
There is a pure Window and a Linux tool, but no possibility to render a movie on a render farm with different OSs.
May I'm wrong. Would be good. If not I think it would be very cool to build this possibility into the Blender render.

Here's a command line hack

http://www.elysiun.com/viewtopic.php?t=5003

It is Multi-platform as soon as platforms are almost-unix (Win + CygWin will do)

I'm working on a GUI in my very spare time

Stefano

There is the rederdaemon/broker-combo. I Used it for cross-platform rendering. Don't know where to find it anymore though.

What will happen to it now, anyway? It was an opensource-project, after all.

Sverre

If i'm not mistaken Excelent Whale had created one. It was pretty good with great GUI and all, just that I don't think he finished it...

WeWa

Hello everyone.
I have new to blender and I would like to know if it have the posibility to use a multiprocesor machine to do rendering.
I'm asking this because I have access to a SUN Enterprise 5500 with 10 processors and to an old Power Challenge of Silicon Graphics.

Thanks for the help.

hey doomsday, if it doesn't will you give me your PC? okey fine... your motherboard?
I don't know what the answer is to your question.

WeWa

We had an open-source render deamon project running at the old site. Hans Lambermont (ex NaN engineer, still very active here) was managing it, and is very interested in bringing it back.

The system had the technology ready, but really lacked a good GUI to make it friendly to use for everyone.

I've asked Hans about this, stay tuned for news.

Doomsday wrote:

Hello everyone. I have new to blender and I would like to know if it have the posibility to use a multiprocesor machine to do rendering. I'm asking this because I have access to a SUN Enterprise 5500 with 10 processors and to an old Power Challenge of Silicon Graphics. Thanks for the help.

Yes, you can use the SUN for rendering. You need to start a process for each processor that you have.

For example, if you have a file called file.blend, and you can render from 1 to 1000, you only need to start 10 blender processes:

blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 1 -e 100&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 101 -e 200&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 201 -e 300&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 301 -e 400&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 401 -e 500&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 501 -e 600&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 601 -e 700&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 701 -e 800&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 801 -e 900&
blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 901 -e 1000&

fjmm1 wrote:

Yes, you can use the SUN for rendering. You need to start a process for each processor that you have. For example, if you have a file called file.blend, and you can render from 1 to 1000, you only need to start 10 blender processes: blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 1 -e 100& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 101 -e 200& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 201 -e 300& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 301 -e 400& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 401 -e 500& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 501 -e 600& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 601 -e 700& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 701 -e 800& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 801 -e 900& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 901 -e 1000&

Thanks for the help. I'll do some tests on these servers and I'll keep you posted about the results.

Can I ask you a favor? could you explain in a little more detail what is the meaning of the commands you wrote?
thanks again

type blender -h to see what the options stand for.
It explains it rather nicely.

Doomsday wrote:

fjmm1 wrote: -a -- Animation. Yo want to render an animation. - b xxx.blend -- You need to know what file you want to render. -S [1..N] -- The scene that you want to render - s [1..N] -- the start frame - e [1..N] -- the stop frame Type "blender" -h if you want more help. Yes, you can use the SUN for rendering. You need to start a process for each processor that you have. For example, if you have a file called file.blend, and you can render from 1 to 1000, you only need to start 10 blender processes: blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 1 -e 100& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 101 -e 200& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 201 -e 300& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 301 -e 400& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 401 -e 500& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 501 -e 600& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 601 -e 700& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 701 -e 800& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 801 -e 900& blender -a -b file.blend -S 1 -s 901 -e 1000& Thanks for the help. I'll do some tests on these servers and I'll keep you posted about the results. Can I ask you a favor? could you explain in a little more detail what is the meaning of the commands you wrote? thanks again