multiple max installations for different sessions

[LaszloSebo]

We are experimenting on allowing multiple max sessions to run on single boxes, in separate slave applications. Since we use various different configurations of max parallel, a semi-safe way of doing it is to have multiple side by side installations of max, so that configuration changes can be isolated to the appropriate copy of max.

How would max function in an environment like that? Would we have to customize the 3dsmax.py to simply pick a different executable / startup folder based on the slade ID?

[rrussell]

Would we have to customize the 3dsmax.py to simply pick a different executable / startup folder based on the slade ID?

I think this is the route you would have to take to have each slave instance start a different installation of Max. The DeadlinePlugin class has the GetSlaveName() function you can call to get the slave name.

How would max function in an environment like that?

I would think this would work fine, since it’s already possible to run multiple instances of max at the same time by bumping up the concurrent task count for a job.

Cheers,
Ryan