Setup guide

This is the hub of the background rendering workgroup.
Backburner Manager can reside on a Master Station or Lustre
Backburner
Manager
station, or can be installed on a dedicated machine in your
network. When jobs are submitted from Lustre to Backburner
Manager, Backburner Manager breaks each submitted job
into tasks and distributes the tasks to the rendering servers
on the network. To view the progress of the tasks, use
Backburner Monitor.
This is the user interface for the Backburner rendering
network. It is automatically installed with Backburner
Backburner
Web Monitor
Manager, and can be accessed through a Web browser from
any workstation on the network. It allows you to view and
control jobs currently being processed. You can stop, restart,
reorder or remove jobs completely using the Monitor. You
also use Backburner Web Monitor to identify any render
nodes that are not working and check the overall status of
the rendering network.
This is a server that runs on render nodes, and is
automatically installed with Burn for Lustre. Backburner
Backburner
Server
Server accepts commands from Backburner Manager to start
and stop rendering tasks. Backburner Server communicates
through a plug-in to execute rendering tasks.
NOTE Consult the latest Autodesk Backburner Installation Guide and Autodesk
Backburner User Guide for detailed information on Backburner. Use the guides to
obtain Backburner information that does not relate directly to Lustre background
rendering, such as details on setting up Web monitoring and troubleshooting tips.
You can find these guides on the Backburner documentation webpage.
This is the Linux rendering engine that renders one
or more frames from Lustre render jobs.
Burn for Lustre
NOTE Burn for Lustre is a different software than Burn for Visual Effects and
Finishing software. While they can co-exist on the same node, the installation and
configuration procedures are different. For information about how to set up Burn
for Visual Effects and Finishing software, consult the Autodesk Burn Installation and
User Guide.
This is the mount point on each Linux server that
allows Burn for Lustre to transfer rendered
frames/files to the Lustre storage system.
Shared storage
mount point
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