Speeding up the rendering of a single scene

jini · Post by **jini** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:13 pm

Long time user first time caller.

Is it possible to do a distributed render of a single scene. I will have access to some big iron ( cluster with 256 GB memory ) and it would be nice to try some stills done on it. I am sure most people with access to faster hardware would like to know they can speed up the rendering of a single scene and not just animations.

Dare I say BlenderTorrient, some sort of built in p2p rendering?

rednelb · Post by **rednelb** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:01 am

mattbatten wrote:distributed rendering shell script for openMosix and Yafray

http://www.yafray.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35

mchs3d · Post by **mchs3d** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:16 pm

If you run a Multi-threading machine (a.k.a. "Hyper-threading" in Intel lingo) you can use the latest CVS build to render with both threads. However, I haven't noticed a significant increase in speed when I did this.

theeth · Post by **theeth** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:02 pm

mchs3d wrote:If you run a Multi-threading machine (a.k.a. "Hyper-threading" in Intel lingo) you can use the latest CVS build to render with both threads. However, I haven't noticed a significant increase in speed when I did this.

Hyperthreading is definitly NOT the same as having a multiprocessor/multithreading machine.

I've posted about this once or twice here, do a search if you want to see what I said (too lazy to look it up myself).

Martin

mchs3d · Post by **mchs3d** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:06 pm

theeth wrote:
mchs3d wrote:If you run a Multi-threading machine (a.k.a. "Hyper-threading" in Intel lingo) you can use the latest CVS build to render with both threads. However, I haven't noticed a significant increase in speed when I did this.
Hyperthreading is definitly NOT the same as having a multiprocessor/multithreading machine.

I've posted about this once or twice here, do a search if you want to see what I said (too lazy to look it up myself).

Martin

You're right. I was just looking this up online. Hyper-threading is actually simultaneous multi-threading. This is truely what Blender needs.

Toon_Scheur · Post by **Toon_Scheur** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:35 pm

Dr Queue, Piovra project?
Is network rendering what you're looking for?

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:03 am

Ideasman wrote a script to render 1 frame on multiple machines using parts and compositing the parts back to an image.
Search the site or forums, and with no luck you can try elysiun.

levon · Post by **levon** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:04 pm

ok ill be nice

if you want to render a single image
http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=m ... renderfarm
is your only option, works realy well, you will need a full install of python.

and the other ones i have found, but not used, but are for animations

The Piovra project
http://www.idstudio.it/piovra/
http://projects.blender.org/projects/piovra/

Nitrox
http://projects.blender.org/projects/nitrox/

Dr Queue
www.drqueue.org

Instinctive Blender
http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=m ... &highlight

RENDERWORLD
http://renderworld.futureware.at/

burp
http://burp.boinc.dk/

burp and renderworld are internet renderers, ie you share the render over a few computers over the net.

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:40 pm

levon wrote:ok ill be nice

Great links, thank you.

Post by **stiv** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:39 pm

Hyper-threading is actually simultaneous multi-threading.

Simultaneous multi-threading, eh? That gets my vote for Marketing Buzzword of the Day.

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:53 pm

stiv wrote:
Hyper-threading is actually simultaneous multi-threading.
Simultaneous multi-threading, eh? That gets my vote for Marketing Buzzword of the Day.

Beats my single cpu's sequential multi-threading

lightning · Post by **lightning** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:06 pm

levon wrote: and the other ones i have found, but not used, but are for animations
....

burp
http://burp.boinc.dk/

When burp is opened to the public (hopefully very soon) it will be possible to do stills- by splitting them into parts and the individual parts are sent to each node

levon · Post by **levon** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:28 am

lightning wrote:
levon wrote: and the other ones i have found, but not used, but are for animations
....

burp
http://burp.boinc.dk/
When burp is opened to the public (hopefully very soon) it will be possible to do stills- by splitting them into parts and the individual parts are sent to each node

ah right, i havent been keeping up to date on teh development of BURP anymore.

i recon it might be worth making a page on blender3d.org about renderfarms, if i can get my login for typo to work correctly ill start a page soon.