Using the MSD Render Farm

This is an experimental service with limited features and support at the moment.

The MSD Render Farm allows you to divide up your rendering task to be assigned to other computers; otherwise known as distributed rendering. The advantages of these are:

1. Much faster rendering times as several computers are helping you render.

2. Access to higher quality renders as the computers linked in the network run state of the art hardware.

Despite that, please note that there are still only so many computers available in the ABP faculty that are hooked up to the distributed rendering service. Therefore, please read the following articles to understand how to utilise distributed renderings and current constraints.

Encountering issues?

If you encounter any issues please see the troubleshooting section first. If your issue is not resolvable with the information provided here please log it with Stop1.

Please note that any issues with the Render Farm must be lodged via Stop1 for us to be able to process. Thank you for your help in establishing and making this new service more robust; We can only fix problems that we know about. So please log any issues you encounter with Stop1.

To being preparing your files for rendering, start here:

pageRender File Preparation

Further details on setting up files are here:

pageMSD Render Farm Access

Find out how to submit a job for rendering here:

pageRender Job Submission

Check and monitor your progress here:

pageMonitoring And Checking Progress

When you are done, find out how to retrieve your files here:

pageRetrieving Your Files