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<h3><a name="The_Render_Farm"> </a><a name="The_Render_Farm_"> </a> The <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/RenderFarm">Render Farm</a> </h3>
When bicubic interpolation and HDTV was first done on Cinelerra, the time needed to produce the simplest output became unbearable even on the fastest dual 1.7Ghz Xeon of the time. Renderfarm support even in the simplest form brings HDTV times back in line with SD while making SD faster than realtime.
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While the <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/RenderFarm">RenderFarm</a> interface isn't spectacular, it's simple enough to use inside an editing suite with less than a dozen nodes without going through the same amount of hassle you would with a several hundred node farm. <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/RenderFarm">RenderFarm</a> is invoked transparently for all <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/FileMenu">FileMenu</a> <strong>-&gt;render</strong> operations when it is enabled in the preferences.
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It should be noted that Create new file at each label causes a new <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/RenderFarm">RenderFarm</a> job to be created at each label instead of the default load balancing. If this option is selected when no labels exist, only one job will be created.
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A <strong>Cinelerra</strong> <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/RenderFarm">RenderFarm</a> is organized into a master node and any number of slave nodes. The master node is the computer which is running the GUI. The slave nodes are anywhere else on the network and are run from the command line.
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<strong>Cinelerra</strong> divides the selected region of the timeline into a certain number of jobs which are then dispatched to the different nodes depending on the load balance. The nodes process the jobs and write their output to individual files on the filesystem. The output files are not concatenated. * It's important for all the nodes and the master node to use the same filesystem for assets, mounted over the network. *
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Since most of the time you'll want to bring in the rendered output and fine tune it on the timeline, the jobs are left in individual files. You can load these using concatenate mode and render them again with renderfarm disabled. If the track and output dimensions equal the asset dimensions, Cinelerra will do a direct copy of all the jobs into a single file. Note that direct copying doesn't work for MPEG Video. MPEG has the distinction that you can concatenate the subfiles with the UNIX cat utility.
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Configuration of the <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/RenderFarm">RenderFarm</a> is described in the <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/PreferencesPerformance">PreferencesPerformance</a> window. The slave nodes traditionally read and write data to a common filesystem over a network, thus they don't need hard drives.
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Ideally all the nodes on the <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/RenderFarm">RenderFarm</a> have similar CPU performance. <strong>Cinelerra</strong> load balances on a first come first serve basis. If the last segment is dispatched to the slowest node, all the fastest nodes may end up waiting for the slowest node to finish while they themselves could have rendered it faster. 
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-- <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Main/AlexFerrer">AlexFerrer</a> - 19 Dec 2003 from <a class="twikiLink" href="../../view/Cinelerra/SecretsOfCinelerra">SecretsOfCinelerra</a>
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