Setup guide

Setting Up Render Nodes
You can set up as many as eight render nodes for background rendering with
Lustre. On each system intended for background rendering, you must do the
following.
Refer to:Step:
Render Node Hardware and Software
Requirements (page 83).
1. Verify that the render nodes meet the minimum system require-
ments.
Installing Linux on Render Nodes
(page 84).
2. Install the appropriate Red Hat operating system.
Mounting the Storage on the Render
Nodes (page 85).
3. If you are not using BrowseD, configure each node to mount
the storage that contains the project render files.
Installing Burn for Lustre on Render
Nodes (page 87).
4. Install Burn for Lustre.
Configuring Backburner Server to De-
tect Backburner Manager (page 90).
5. Connect the render nodes to Backburner Manager.
Starting Backburner Server (page 91).6. Start the Backburner Server on each render node.
Render Node Hardware and Software Requirements
Render nodes purchased from Autodesk come with all the necessary hardware
and software components preinstalled.
To use Burn for Lustre on nodes that were not purchased from Autodesk, the
nodes must meet the minimum hardware and OS requirements listed in the
following table.
1 or 2 Xeon
®
Intel
®
Processor DP
Processor:
2 GBMemory:
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