What's the most appropriate Windows OS for using Deadline 4.

There’re 100 Slaves in our Randering Farm. And we use Win XP - 64bit for slaves and Win Server 2003 - 64bit for repository. But after I submited a job, the job started very, very slowly. It takes more than 15 minute for almost of the slaves to change status from “idel” to “starting”. And we also tried Win Server 2003 - 32bit for both slaves and repository, but it was also very, very slow. So I want to know what is the most appropriate Windows OS for using Deadline 4.1.

Thanks!

WinXPx64 OS works really well with Deadline v4.x
Your problem doesn’t sound like a OS related issue though.
Can you provide some more info?
Thanks,
Mike

sounds like you aren’t running deadline pulse.

thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-5-pulse/

chris bond