GPU Farm

[Former user]

I have a window pc with 6 gpu's I would like to use for rendering, but I prefer to work on my macbook. Is it possible to run a factorium process on the windows computer listening on a port for render work from factorium on my macbook?

Thanks

[Matt Feemster]

Fractorium has no networking capabilities. So the easiest way would be to do it via file share.

Edit on your mac, save to a shared folder on your PC.

Have a script on your PC that monitors for when new flame files get placed in it, or when an existing file gets updated. That script will then run EmberRender.exe in a thread which will read the file and output the rendered image.

You can learn more about the command line here:

http://fractorium.com/?article=command-line-overview

Note that you will have to make a determination whether to split a single render across 6 GPUs, or if you want to render many images, each getting its own GPU. Fractorium supports both. The latter is usually used for animation.

Also note that for running on multiple GPUs to be “worth it”, you need to be doing a higher quality render.

Also note that the GPUs should ideally be identical in performance. I try to load balance the render as best I can, but if you have one really slow GPU, it might slow things down a bit.

Or, you could just skip all of this complexity by working on your PC.

Let me know how it goes.

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[Zack]

Thank you for the prompt response. I will try what you suggested and let you know how it goes.

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Thanks

Zach

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[Matt Feemster]

What is the status of your efforts on this. May I close it now?

[Zack]

Yes please. I am experiencing the same issue as https://bitbucket.org/mfeemster/fractorium/issues/13/unable-to-create-opencl-renderer-for