Apple Shake (Qmaster 1.2) Distributed Rendering (10.3) - Manual (Page 18)

2 Use the Shake Qmaster pane in System Preferences to enable cluster controlling and
UNIX Processing on the Xserve.
3 Use Shake Qadministrator on the Xserve to create a cluster that contains the Xserve
and the cluster nodes.
After you finish this final step, the client computers can start submitting Shake jobs to
the cluster for distributed rendering.
Submitting Render Jobs in the Render Farm Setup
Because of the way access is configured in this setup, all file pathnames are
conveniently consistent for the purposes of specifying them in Shake scripts and in
Shake Qmaster, assuming that:
• Users place all source media for the Shake scripts on the second Xserve drive (which
each user will see mounted in /Network/Servers/XserveName.local/Volumes/).
• Users place all the Shake scripts on the second Xserve drive.
• All folders and files on the second Xserve drive (the media volume) have Read and
Write access enabled for everyone (for Owner, Group, and Others). You can make this
access setting by selecting the folder or file and choosing File > Get Info.
The above three assumptions are very important. They ensure that the user computers
and cluster computers have Read and Write access to all the media source files, Shake
scripts, and output destinations.
Specifying the Media File Locations in Shake Scripts
In the above setup, all the Shake render scripts should specify their source media (File
In) locations and output (File Out) destinations as:
/Network/Servers/XserveName.local/Volumes/MediaDiskName/.
For example: /Network/Servers/blue.local/Volumes/BlueHD/.
Specifying Shake Script Locations in Shake Qmaster
In the above setup, all the Shake script locations should be specified in Shake Qmaster
as: /Network/Servers/XserveName.local/Volumes/MediaDiskName/ScriptFilename.
For example: /Network/Servers/blue.local/Volumes/BlueHD/Script.shk.
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