Setup guide

7 Optional: To prevent other Visual Effects and Finishing tools and applications (such as background
Wire, Wiretap
™
, or remote Visual Effects and Finishing applications) from impacting the performance
of your local application, configure bandwidth reservation for your partition in the
/usr/discreet/sw/cfg/sw_bwmgr.cfg file. For details and examples, see the comments inside the
/usr/discreet/sw/cfg/sw_bwmgr.cfg.sample file.
8 Restart Stone and Wire by typing:
/etc/init.d/stone+wire restart
A message appears indicating Stone and Wire has restarted.
9 Make sure the filesystem is mounted. Type
/usr/discreet/sw/sw_df
A report appears providing information about the total, free, and used disk space in the partition.
Any project created in your application after this point has the new standard filesystem partition as its
primary partition. Any pre-existing projects are unaffected by this setting and remain associated to their
respective partitions.
Setting up the Wire Network
This section provides the basic steps involved in setting up the Wire network and associated components,
such as Wiretap.
Wire is a component that enables the high-speed transfer of uncompressed video, film, and audio between
Autodesk workstations, over industry-standard TCP/IP and InfiniBand networks.
Wiretap is a networking protocol that allows products that do not run Stone and Wire to access the filesystem
of a Visual Effects and Finishing product.
To set up Wire and Wiretap:
1 Open a terminal and log in as root.
2 Stop all Stone and Wire daemons. Type:
/etc/init.d/stone+wire stop
3 Optional: If your workstation is equipped with an InfiniBand card, perform the following steps to
configure InfiniBand networking:
■ Start the InfiniBand configuration utility by typing:
/sbin/iba_config
■ Type 2 to select Reconfigure IP over IB.
■ Follow the on-screen instructions to configure the IP address and netmask of your InfiniBand
interface.
The settings of the interface are written to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ib1 file and you are
returned to the main menu.
■ Type X to exit the InfiniBand configuration utility.
NOTE The settings will take effect when you restart your workstation.
4 Open the /usr/discreet/sw/cfg/sw_framestore_map file in a text editor, and configure the network interfaces
that you will use for Wire networking in the [INTERFACES] section. This must be done on every
host that is a part of the Wire network.
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