Render Farm 

Detail

Render Farm, one of the Formosa series, is the NCHC’s self-built 3D rendering machine. To advance the rendering performance, the Render Cluster adopts Linux operating system and professional rendering queuing system to provide complete services. Meanwhile, to improve the convenience of use, users could dispatch rendering jobs and monitor the computing status through a graphical user interface (GUI), whether Linux, Windows, or Mac OS is used.

 Hardware Configuration

    IBM System x3550 M3 - 60 nodes Each computing node consists of :

1. CPU – Intel Xeon x5660 six cores 2.8GHz x2
2. Memory – 48GB DDR3 ECC
3. Network – 2GB Ethernetport，1 4x QDRInfiniband port

 Network

1. Gigabit switch – D-Link DGS-3100 48 ports 10/100/1000Mbps switch x6
2. InfiniBand switch –Voltaire Grid Director 4036 x8

 Software Configuration

1. Maya Software Render (Maya2010, Maya2011, Maya2012)
2. Mental Ray Batch for Maya(2010,2011,2012)
3. Mental Ray Standalone(2012)
4. Vray 2.0
5. Blender 2.49
    

 Queuing System

    Qube 6.x.x

 NCHC Consulting Window 

      account@nchc.narl.org.tw (03)5776085 # 442 。