RE: Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Hardware

DAB — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:20:57 GMT

Nice update.

I like your approach to the power. I am working with the Blade UNO and I am not happy with the wall wart power available, so I will use an old ATX power source as well.

I look forward to comparing notes on these Blade devices.

DAB

RE: Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Hardware

balearicdynamics — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 10:15:33 GMT

Hello Andy, great project opening the new year eve!

Do you think that there be some improvement with a SSD disK ? (frankly I suppose no due the limitations of the USB 2.0 on the Pi)

Instead, what about to place a network disk instead of a USB one connected to the Pi ?

I have built in past a bunch of small computers to make a render farm (6 small PC) and it worked well for video network rendering. As far as I know every node was using its own local storage for frame caching and only after the frames assigned to the node was complete the stuff was sent to the master for final merging. Do you plan to use the SD card on the Pi for this operation?

Enrico