I am planning to make a small render farm running on a Mac for the home use. I am planning to purchase couple of Mac Mini:s. Is it possible to purchase a Network Render software with less cores than 32, which seems to be a minimum on the online store?
Then Mac Mini:s. Do them have to be servers or is normal Mac Mini enough? I will not use them for anything else than slaving the rendering process. For the Master I have a MacBook Pro.
850 euro for an i7 quad core .. not bad, no ?
that's 8 threads, right ?
32 cores are the minimum. And the computers can be anything. They don't have to be servers.
Ok, thanks for the info.
A minor disappointment. But at least you have the Network Rendering package on Black Friday sale. ;)
Right now I am testing the evaluation version of Keyshot. With the models I normally import or generate, Keyshot runs really well on my hardware. That is 3 yrs old Macbook Pro with 4 Gt Ram and Solid State Disk. The fan is on all the time. :)
Still one question:
Will Network Render work on Apple Airport Wi-Fi (802.11n) network?
Network Rendering will work fine with that setup.
Thanks for the info Brandon.
I think there will be some additional software and hardware purchases ahead this week. ;)