New features in PipelineFX’s render farm management system include:
- Smart Share – improves overall render pipeline throughput by
automatically re-assigning idle workers once they conclude a job
without intervention from an artist or wrangler in a fair, balanced and
controllable way. - Universal Callbacks – some jobs require an action every
time they are
run on the farm. To help, universal callbacks are automatically
executed for every job, instance or frame, giving operators an easy way
to maintain integration with other software and scripts. - Flight Checks – registers scripts that will be executed on
a worker
immediately before or after a job or task runs. - ArtistView improvements – centralized preferences and
plugins; job,
frame, and instance filters (similar to WranglerView); OpenEXR image
support in the preview window, as well as a new “thumbnails” tab with
mouse over information. - New platform support – all Autodesk 2015 products and
Ubuntu 12.04
Linux are fully supported; Python 2.7 supported on applicable OS
platforms. - Windows platform improvements – upgraded version
of MySQL
server (5.5.37) is bundled to significantly improve supervisor
performance and Python “load-once” jobs are now fully supported.
More on PipelineFX’s site.
