Setup guide

Connect the Slave Renderer to a switch on your GigE or 10-GigE house
network. You can configure it to access media through NFS mount points, or
using the BrowseD service. Using BrowseD is the recommended approach, as
it is much faster than NFS.
See the following table for a summary of the steps necessary to configure slave
rendering.
Refer to:Step:
Do I Need to Reinstall Linux? (page
33) and Installing the DKU (page 44).
1. Install Linux and the Discreet Kernel Utility (DKU) on the Slave
Renderer.
The Slave Renderer section in Setting
Up Your Workstation Hardware, or in
2. Connect the Slave Renderer to a switch on your house network.
the Hardware Setup Guide for your
workstation.
Configuring the Network Addresses
(page 73).
3. Configure the network address that the Slave Renderer uses
to communicate to the workstation.
Installing the Slave Renderer Software
and License (page 73).
4. Install the slave rendering software and license.
Configuring Read/Write Access to
Storage from the Slave Renderer (page
74).
5. If you are not using BrowseD, configure read/write access to
storage attached to the Master Station from the Slave Renderer.
Mounting the Storage on the Slave
Renderer (page 76).
6. If you are not using BrowseD, mount the storage attached to
the Master on the Slave Renderer.
Setting Up Lustre Projects to Use Slave
Rendering (page 77).
7. Set up the configuration file so that Lustre projects can use
slave rendering.
Autodesk Lustre User Guide.8. Render shots as you work.
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