Hi !
I wanted to ask some general questions on some of the features in Deadline. I want to ask these before I go through the long process of installation and licensing.
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Does Deadline feature a tool so that we can configure slaves to transfer files between other slaves. I wanted to ask this because there would be bandwidth and drive controller limitations if the data for jobs all had to come from a single network drive or from the master controller’s drives. Is something like that possible and easily accomplished?
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Is there an advanced Load Balancing option such that if a slave becomes idle in the middle of a job, and another slave is still rendering part of the same task, a certain number of frames to be rendered from the active slave can be transferred to the idle slave so the idle slave can do work and not remain idle.
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If Deadline does not have inherent support for the item above, can it be developed?
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In regards to the licensing server, does the machine that runs the licensing server have to be connected to the internet?