Rendering > Cluster Manager
The Cluster Manager organizes the shared use of a central cluster by multiple users. It provides you the ability to book certain time slots and resources for cluster raytracing.
If the cluster service is installed on the PC in use, you can login with admin as the user name and password. Once logged in, you can change your user name and password in the Users tab. Using your system user name and password is recommended.
Server - Enter a server name for the cluster. If one is not known, contact your cluster administrator.
User Name - Enter your User name or admin.
Password - Enter your password or admin.
Configuration - All available clusters are listed for selection.
Type - Select One-Time or Periodic to book nodes repeatedly for specific days and times.
Date range - You can select a date from the calendar or, to select a range of dates, hold Shift and select an end date. Only available when type is one-time.
Start Date - Start date of the booking series. Only available when type is periodic.
End Date - Last date of the booking series. Only available when type is periodic.
Day - Day of the week. Only available when type is periodic.
From - The start time of the cluster reservation.
To - The end time of the cluster reservation.
Number of nodes - The number of compute nodes to reserve. The administrator can restrict the maximum number of nodes.
Description - You can add additional comments.
Configuration - Select the configuration to allocate resources for.
Date - Select a date to display a full week of resources.
Login name - User name.
Password - Administrators and users can change or remove passwords.
User type - Contains the following user type options:
Standard User - Allows reservation and use of resources.
Administrator - Allows management of resources, users, and configurations.
Type - Use Online cluster for online rendering or Job queue for offline rendering.
Name - The name of the configuration. This name is used for reservations or resource overviews.
Node Limit - The maximum number of nodes a user is able to reserve. If unlimited, all resources can be reserved.
Show warning - Defines when a user sees a warning dialog announcing the end of a session.
Stop session - Defines when a session is ended.
Queue Master - Offline rendering is performed on this computer. A VREDClusterService must be installed on this computer.
Description - Comments that can be attached to the configuration.
Add render - Add a render job with the current render settings.
Add queue - Add a render job with all active entries in the render queue.
Add sequences - Add a render job for all active sequences in the sequencer module.
Remove - Remove all selected jobs. An administrator can remove jobs that you do not own.
Abort - Stops a render job and leaves the rendered frames on the server. Starting the render job again deletes the existing frames and starts the render from the beginning. To continue the render at the point it was aborted, a new job must be created with a start point of where the render was stopped.
Start - Start processing.
Stop - Stop processing after current job is finished. Do not start new jobs.