I'm not usually the one to necro a post but this one is really interesting. I'm quite a newbie at Render farm network architecture can someone help ? I know that the master server holds all the licensing information and render queue's. But how does the slave interact with that information and distribute the renders ? do you need to install the same software on every slave machine, to allow rendering, for example Maya ?
I'd really like it if someone would help me out with this ? I'm still new to render farms so I'm confused, since I want to make a render farm