Hi to all in the forums!
I have a small render farm to output 3D animation (Lightwave 3D)
Server = 3TB Seagate Goflex Home NAS
1 x Main Workstaion = Lenovo Xeon 8core
5 x Render Nodes = HP Xeon 8core
1 x Gigabit Switch
Cat 5e cables
Things had been going ok, but I recently did a job rendering 3k EXRs
I.E. I was rendering REALLY REALLY big images not just in terms of pixels,
these are floating point and multi-layered like psds, so about 50mb per frame.
I have been getting problems with the nodes not being able to write to the server.
Since that could be 48 nodes plus lots of other tasks all talking to the nas - am I running out of connections?
Or.. am I running out of bandwidth somewhere... I doubt it cos GBethernet is what everyone uses..
Is there any good software I can use to diagnose my entire system?
I can't find any manufacturers data on the goflex gome's "concurrent connections" - is it super low with this NAS?
I'm thinking of getting a QNAS - as their spec lists 256 concurrent connections,
That's got to be enough...
I have a small render farm to output 3D animation (Lightwave 3D)
Server = 3TB Seagate Goflex Home NAS
1 x Main Workstaion = Lenovo Xeon 8core
5 x Render Nodes = HP Xeon 8core
1 x Gigabit Switch
Cat 5e cables
Things had been going ok, but I recently did a job rendering 3k EXRs
I.E. I was rendering REALLY REALLY big images not just in terms of pixels,
these are floating point and multi-layered like psds, so about 50mb per frame.
I have been getting problems with the nodes not being able to write to the server.
Since that could be 48 nodes plus lots of other tasks all talking to the nas - am I running out of connections?
Or.. am I running out of bandwidth somewhere... I doubt it cos GBethernet is what everyone uses..
Is there any good software I can use to diagnose my entire system?
I can't find any manufacturers data on the goflex gome's "concurrent connections" - is it super low with this NAS?
I'm thinking of getting a QNAS - as their spec lists 256 concurrent connections,
That's got to be enough...