Render slave priority question

Deadline
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Hi Guys,



Just a question. We have a small render farm with 10 stronger and few weaker machines. The question is there is any way to tell deadline start assign the jobs to the stronger machines first automatically.

Thank you!






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It has been suggested why deadline overwrite every time the submitted scene? This is necessary for the submit? There will be a way to chose between overwrite secenes or not?

Thank you.

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Hi Csaba,


Just a question. We have a small render farm with 10 stronger and

few weaker machines. The question

is there is any way to tell deadline start assign the jobs to the

stronger machines first automatically.



This isn’t possible at the moment. Deadline uses a “Pull” architecture,

where the slaves decide which job to render, and aren’t aware of what

the other slaves are doing. This makes it difficult for slaves to

coordinate things so that more powerful machines get jobs first. If the

job consists of many tasks, it will eventually work out that the more

powerful machines will do more work than the weaker ones, so this isn’t

a big deal in this case.



If you are simply submitting a job consisting one task or a couple of

tasks, you could set up a pool ahead of time that is only assigned to

the faster machines, and then submit the job to that pool. This way you

ensure that only faster machines pick up that particular job. Is this a

solution that can work for you?





It has been suggested why deadline overwrite every time the

submitted scene? This is necessary for

the submit? There will be a way to chose between overwrite secenes

or not?



Currently this is necessary, since Deadline submits the scene file with

the job. For Deadline 3.0, we will look at the possibility of saving a

temporary scene that is submitted with the job, instead of saving over

the original.



Cheers,

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Hi Ryan,



This separate pool submitting sounds good for me.Save the submitted scene file in a temporary file avoid me doing mistakes.

Thank you!



Best regards:

Csaba