Renderfarm submitters

WIP Sorry, there is no tutorial or guide for this at the moment. Basically you need to set up one of the following Render Farm environments, and create a suitable submitter. If the referenced Render Farm Submitter is detected, Meshroom will show an additional button. Setting up the environment can be complicated, so it is nothing for the casual user. (You would need different servers (physical or virtual) that can distribute and manage the Job to connected machines (Example). There will be a tutorial or guide on this in the future, but for now you are on your own. (So please don´t open a new issue on this)

Pixar RenderMan - Tractor

https://renderman.pixar.com/tractor https://renderman.pixar.com/forum/download.php

meshroom/submitters/simpleFarmSubmitter.py meshroom/submitters/simpleFarmConfig.json

https://alicevision.org/img/meshroom/renderfarm.png

Fireworks

https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/pull/81 https://materialsproject.github.io/fireworks

CGRU / AFANASY

https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/issues/1039 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVZvlXdBsg (reference)

OpenCue

https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/pull/992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOi3azKJ3Xs (reference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk-huejruG0 (reference for local setup)

1. Get the Meshroom OpenCue Submitter https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/pull/992
2. Place it in the Meshroom Submitters folder
3. The Meshroom Submitter is using OpenCue PyOutline.
4. Cuebot server with OpenCue database, RQD Render Agents on the target machines, PyCue and PyOutline installed on the primary machine are required. https://www.opencue.io/docs/concepts/opencue-overview/
5. Set up OpenCue as described here: https://www.opencue.io/docs/getting-started/

Slurm farm HPC

https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/issues/357#issuecomment-535851216

• slurm on render farm

Slurm needs bash script to load jobs with specific comments such #SBATCH (https://support.ceci-hpc.be/doc/_contents/QuickStart/SubmittingJobs/SlurmTutorial.html) .

slurmFarmSubmitter converts the Meshroom nodes to those scripts through python + jinja template https://github.com/sergiy-nazarenko/hafarm/blob/master/slurm_job.schema

slurmFarmSubmitter.py needs to be placed in meshroom/submitters/slurmFarmSubmitter.py

Amazon Web Services

https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/wiki/Meshroom-on-AWS

leverage AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service), S3 (Simple Storage Service) and boto https://github.com/boto/boto

to do: submitter

reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oqo383uviw