Use Burn to render images in the background on network-attached workstations, freeing the main workstation for creative tasks. Components:
Run multiple versions of Burn on one hardware node
Each version of a Creative Finishing application includes its own version of Burn, and each version of Burn is compatible with only one version of Creative Finishing applications. In a facility with different versions of Creative Finishing applications running with their corresponding version of Burn, different corresponding versions of Burn can be run on the same machine.
Install Burn
- To set up the node's operating system, use the Red Hat distribution that came with Flame Premium. See the installation instructions for Flame Premium. Otherwise use CentOS, following the instructions for Flare and Flame Assist.
- Install Burn on the hardware: log in to the render node as root, and open a terminal. to access the installer. Get the installation software from Autodesk and run: ./INSTALL_BURN to install Burn and Backburner Server. For Lustre: ./INSTALL_LUSTRE_BURN. When Burn for Lustre is installed, the necessary Backburner components are also installed on the render node.
- License Burn.
- Install Backburner on the system that will be the Backburner Manager for Burn jobs and activate each render node so it can receive and process jobs from Backburner Manager.
- In the /usr/discreet/backburner/cfg/manager.host file enter the host name or IP address of the Backburner Manager. Otherwise, close it without saving. You may edit this file later after which you must restart the server with /etc/init.d/backburner_manager restart.
- If this is the first time you installed Burn on this node, configure multicasting by editing sw_probed.
- Install on the node any optional non-default fonts, if any, installed on the machine running the Creative Finishing application are installed.
- To stop or restart Backburner Server, use /etc/init.d/backburner_server stop or /etc/init.d/backburner_server restart. Check the Backburner Manager daemon is running: ps -ef | grep -i Backburner.
- Configure a Backburner Server to detect Backburner Manager: get the IP address of hostname of the Backburner Manager computer. On each render node add the IP address or hostname of the Backburner Manager machine to /usr/discreet/backburner/cfg/manager.host.