How to build an open source render farm based on desktop grid computing

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 20 CCIS, Issue , 2008, Pages 268-278

  Patoli, Zeeshan ^a   Gkion, Michael ^a   Al Barakati, Abdullah ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Newbury, Paul ^a   White, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blender Render Farm; CPU scavenging; Desktop Grid computing; Open Source; Render farm

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BLENDING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; DESKTOP GRID COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMPUTING; OPEN SOURCES; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS; UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 85099426235     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89853-5_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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