Max render farm management software

[pdavis]

Anyone know of a render farm management tool (other than backburner) that can detect if a user is logged onto their workstation and if they are NOT, then manager software will send render jobs to that machine?

Thanks.

[dellis]

I'm unaware of one that can do that...though that would be cool. I generally just use DR and the users on the computers just feel a slowdown while i'm hijacking their computer. let me know if you need more info and i'll round up all the links to the available render management programs out there.

[stusic]

It is possible to have a render server assigned a job only if it has been idle for x minutes, and it's also possible to have it assigned a job if it's running less than an allowed number of programs. I'm not sure if you can do it only when a user is logged in -- I set up bb as a service with its own account.

Take a look at this article (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1847413,00.asp), it has some great info.

[Andre Baros]

I came across this a while back but couldn't find the link again until now. I haven't used it but it looks like it addresses a lot of the usual network rendering issues and has functions to address idle workstations, etc.

http://www.ixor3d.com/refamo.htm