Hello again,
Just a quick follow up question regarding this topic. Does running DR over VLAN over a 100mbit fiber line work fast enough to allow for constant usage and not just for final frame rendering? I am asking this because doing the math something like a 300mbit internet connection should be way better.
Anyone care to share? :)
I have a couple of PC's networked through Hamachi across the City for render,pcs owned by friends, family etc.( I upgrade their ram, I get automatic processing power with their strongest PC they own.)
Bandwidth is usually not an issue on LAN, once you go through your ISP things change however. If it is truly 100mbit fiber you are in the green. Latency does not matter and 100mbit is more than enough, provided the you don't have a problem with a short wait time for render startup.
With 1gb of textures on 100mbit it's 80secs to download textures + 10 seconds for your 125mb scene file + 10 secs to launch the render PER NODE!
however! Are you really sure the connection is symmetrical?
Usually where I live it's 100mbit down and fuck you 5mbit up. Meaning you send data at 1/20 of the speed and the 80secs become 80*20=26min
So make sure that A, you can send data fast enough and B the Node can receive Data at least as fast as it sends it, or you shall feel painfully slow start to render times.
I myself am blessed with shitty 5mbit up speed and rely on Hamachi's network traffic compression. One more problem being, that backburner does not assign frame ranges to nodes if render time per frame is more than 60s and the frame upload from my ghetto "nodes" takes 60s as well. Meaning for 60s back burner does not assign a new frame and the node just idles for a minute -.- ) not a problem with coronaDr though.
Edit: why fold for cancer research when you can enslave yourself for my render farm? Muhahahahaha
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