A Framework for Creating a Distributed Rendering Environment on the Compute Clusters

This paper discusses the deployment of existing render farm manager in a typical compute cluster environment such as a university. Usually, both a render farm and a compute cluster use different queue managers and assume total control over the physical resources. But, taking out the physical resources from an existing compute cluster in a university-like environment whose primary use of the cluster is to run numerical simulations may not be possible. It can potentially reduce the overall resource utilization in a situation where compute tasks are more than rendering tasks. Moreover, it can increase the system administration cost. In this paper, a framework has been proposed that creates a dynamic distributed rendering environment on top of the compute clusters using existing render farm managers without requiring the physical separation of the resources.

@article{Sheharyar2013,
  title     = {A Framework for Creating a Distributed Rendering Environment on the Compute Clusters},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {4},
  number    = {6},
  year      = {2013},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Ali Sheharyar and Othmane Bouhali},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040616},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040616}
}