Frantic Films Software Releases Deadline 2.0

Mar 08, 2006 by Richard Annema

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Frantic Software announced the release of Deadline 2.0 (build 2.0.18035) including among others a new Power Management feature, improved performance through Deadline Pulse, scriptable submission dialogs using VBscript, increased pool limit and several new plugins.
http://software.franticfilms.com/index.aspx

( Deadline is a network rendering management application ) Some key new features include:

The new Power Management feature can reduce energy consumption by automatically turning machines on and off based on the current farm load.
The new Deadline Pulse application can be used to improve Deadline’s performance by improving Monitor refresh rates, and decreasing Slave polling time when searching for a job.
Monitor submission dialogs are now written in vbscript, and can be added and customized as necessary. See Deadline Scripting for more information.
The pool limit has been increased far beyond the previous 36 pool limit.
New plugin support has been added for Maya 7.0.1, After Effects 7.0, and RealFlow3 (beta).