I work in the technology department of a local school. I do a range of tasks including network and server management, computer repair, as well as working with av systems.

I have been able start working with some video camera and audio equipment.

One thing I have been trying to design is a cluster based render farm. I am hopefull that it would be possible build a cluster that I could boot a computer lab and remote desktop to cut my render time that takes a good part of a day now to take much shorter time.

If anyone has done anything like this I would be glad where how it worked out.

Thanks in advance
Illuminatornd

Start by researching renderers, see if the ones you want to use can work in a compute cluster and then see what their recommendations are.

This is one of the cases where you'll need to identify your end goal and work back from there.

Do you want to do it in Maya?

Have you read this and watched this before?
http://mos.3dworldmag.com/TDW94.s_farm.pdf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vfI7Jqtyc‎
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...node,2340.html
http://blogs.computerworld.com/pixar...ervers_not_mac

I am probably on the wrong track but what I am hoping to do here is a cluster of computers (old CPUs of Refurb servers) that I can put into a server closet we have in the school where I can remote into on a smaller computer or laptop to capture the video and render to DVD. The main reason I am looking to remote is because I have several offices that I plan to use this in as well as demo for the IT class. I know OpenSUSe as it is my main computer so I am hoping to use that for the distro or similar.

I have tried searching the web for info and everything seems quite old and has a lot of dead links for download.

Am I totally off the mark with my goal?

Illuminator