Problems with Windows Render Farm

March 13, 2013, 6:50 pm

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By Terry Bates -

We are currently running Qube as our Render manager and have a small (96 cores) render farm + workstations at night.  The farm is running Windows and we’re running Maya and Mental Ray renders (CMDRANGE). 

 

We have started having issues with “File not found” errors and failing frames.   IT seems to work OK for some frames and then fail again for others…not limited to any particular machine or machine type, job type or anything else I can find.  I have checked out and run some tests on my network…all seems to be OK there.  I have made sure that all machines are syncing clocks with NTP.  I sent in diags and PIRs for the BlueArc Mercury…all checked out OK…I’m now totally at a loss as to where to look.  One of my friends mentioned that they had similar issues on their linux farm and it turned out to be the limit on number of open files.  PipelineFX assures me that that only happens in linux.

 

Anybody seen anything similar or have any suggestions where else I can look?

 

 

Terry

 

 

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Editorial (FCP) Project Version Control & Check-out?

March 14, 2013, 9:40 am

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By Rob LaRose -

Happy Thursday, folks!

Absent a Final Cut Server, has anyone got a good solution to allow editorial work off-SAN/Network, with a check-in/version-control model?  In theory, I'd click "Check out this project," a local copy of it (with media) would come down to my firewire drive, I go home for the weekend and work, then I click "Check in" on Monday and any changes get pushed up to the repository.

I looked at CatDV but it doesn't look like it has any kind of project/version control options.

--Rob

rob larose | engineer | rock paper scissors | 212-255-6446 | www.rockpaperscissors.com

SSA NAB 2013 Meet & Greet w/Avere

March 14, 2013, 10:45 am

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By John Hickson -

All, we are pleased to announce our 4^th Annual NAB Meet and Greet in Las Vegas.

 

Please register  if you able to attend.

 

Feed: StudioSysAdmins Events
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Author: StudioSysAdmins Events
Subject: SSA 4th Annual NAB Meet & Greet w/Avere

 

Please join us for the 4th Annual StudioSysAdmins NAB Meet & Greet   Thanks to Avere Systems for sponsoring our 4th Annual NAB Event. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow systesms administrators and engineers from the StudioSysAdmins community. Open to all members.   Please register in advance as space may be limited.   Sponsored by:       Avere Systems        Guest Speaker:   Matt Provost fromWeta Digital       Topic:   "Solving the 16 group limit"       When:   Tuesday April 9th, 2013     6:00pm to 7:30pm       Where:   Las Vegas Hilton Hotel & Casino (LVH)     Ballroom D           * Beverages and Appetizers will be served.   Will will have prizes! (Prizes TBD)

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UNC vs Mapped shares

March 14, 2013, 12:05 pm

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By Anonymous - Curious as to which you guys use for your win 7 clients.  UNC paths make sense for cross platform compatibility, ease of render farm networking, clean paths, etc.  but Autodesk products seem to like accessing files off drive letters a whole lot more.  I've also noticed some open/save dialogs hide shortcuts, and then requires artists to type in the \\server\share path by hand just to get back to the share.  Mostly just annoyances, but maybe there are better approaches.

How do you guys have win 7 clients access shares?

Ross Dickson

IT Manager

DIGITALKITCHEN | 314 W. Superior Floor 6, Chicago IL 60654 | V 312.944.3999 | ThisIsDK.com

S.M.A.R.T. logging

March 14, 2013, 1:20 pm

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By Anonymous - Every now and then I get an email from one of my RAIDs of a bunch of S.M.A.R.T. warnings, e.g. power on hours, head fly height, etc. Are there any decent tools out there to grab the contents from these emails and populate a database and then graphically display historical data for some or all SMART attributes? Thanks, -- Antoine To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Where does OSX store ... ?

March 14, 2013, 2:05 pm

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By Todd Smith -

I'm looking to find out where OSX stores the ACL for users setup here

Anyone have any clue?  

Todd Smith

Head of Information Technology

soho vfx | 

99 Atlantic Ave. Suite 303, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3J8

office: (416) 516-7863 fax: (416) 516-9682 web: sohovfx.com

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March 14, 2013, 2:55 pm

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Editorial (FCP) Project Version Control & Check-out?

March 15, 2013, 1:30 am

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By Julian Firminger - Not used it but heard reasonably good things:

http://www.flavoursys.com/

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Rob LaRose <rlarose@rockpaperscissors.com> wrote:

Happy Thursday, folks!

Absent a Final Cut Server, has anyone got a good solution to allow editorial work off-SAN/Network, with a check-in/version-control model? ?In theory, I'd click "Check out this project," a local copy of it (with media) would come down to my firewire drive, I go home for the weekend and work, then I click "Check in" on Monday and any changes get pushed up to the repository.

I looked at CatDV but it doesn't look like it has any kind of project/version control options.

--Rob

rob larose?| engineer | rock paper scissors |?212-255-6446?|?www.rockpaperscissors.com

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Chris Hyman has reached 50, a good reason to have a few beers.

March 15, 2013, 2:35 am

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By Chris Hyman - Well I do next weekend. To celebrate I am having a few beers at the Dog & Duck on Bateman Street Soho (London) from about 6PM on the 21st March so if you know me you are very welcome and if you dont know me come along and say Hi anyway and hopefully meet a few other SSA's. Chris To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Baby's first Isilon -- OneFS v6.5.5 or v7?

March 15, 2013, 4:45 am

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By Rob LaRose -

About to go live with my first Isilon.  We've been building & getting used to 6.5.5, but it looks like the current recommended release is v7.x.  

I'd love to hear people's takes on whether to upgrade to 7 before going into production (saving us the hassle of downtime/learning new stuff IN production) vs. staying where we are.  Are there any compelling improvements in 7 that I'm really gonna want?  Any gremlins or gotchas that will break my tiny heart?

--Rob

rob larose | engineer | rock paper scissors | 212-255-6446 | www.rockpaperscissors.com

crazy nuke scripting

March 15, 2013, 4:50 am

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By Ben De Luca - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTRbh7K1jQ To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

[JOB] Mid/Sr Linux & OSX Systems Engineer

March 15, 2013, 10:25 am

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By Viet Nguyen - If you or someone you know might be interested, have them shoot me an e-mail for more info. -- Viet Nguyen Systems Engineer, Entity FX p: 310.899.9779 f: 310.899.3113 To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

LA SSA - Food and drink and plenty of trash talkin

March 15, 2013, 1:00 pm

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By Brian Krusic - On behalf of RFX, on long time friend and trusted partner in the tragic game of VFX, there will be an event on 3/21 starting at 6:30PM.

Many vendors on hand, some to applaud, others to shame.

RSVP;

http://rfx.com/events/78

- Brian

"All have their worth

and each contributes to the worth of others."

Any PowerShell nerds out there?

March 15, 2013, 4:00 pm

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By Klaus Steden - I am not one, but some of you might find this useful ... it popped up on my Facebook feed: http://www.powershelladmin.com/wiki/SSH_from_PowerShell_using_the_SSH.NET_library cheers, Klaus To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

NAB Show 2013 thread

March 15, 2013, 4:35 pm

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By Dan Young - SSA, Are you around? Lets have beers. Post your loose dates and places working! I'll be on the DDP booth working the show Monday to Thursday and in Vegas until Friday - lets beer! DY Sent from my iPhone To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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OpenDirectory server and MCX clients (trying to centralize NFS mounts)

March 15, 2013, 5:35 pm

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By Anthony Moon -

What's the easiest way to centralize mount points with OD and MCX?

The only solution I can find is dragging the shares to the login window start-up items preference pane and this only works for CIFS..

I can also add the NFS dsrecord attribute keys manually via the inspector.. but I'm not sure where exactly to put them..

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Desktop Support
Image-Engine
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March 16, 2013, 9:00 am

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By William Shortell - Looking forward to an LA meeting.

On 03/15/2013 01:06 PM, Saker Klippsten wrote:

Dang. In BC till the 22nd.


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Brian Krusic <brian@krusic.com> wrote:

On behalf of RFX, on long time friend and trusted partner in the tragic game
of VFX, there will be an event on 3/21 starting at 6:30PM.

Many vendors on hand, some to applaud, others to shame.

RSVP;

http://rfx.com/events/78


- Brian

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Are 32 bit builds still relevant?

March 16, 2013, 4:10 pm

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By Jean-Francois Panisset - A lot of vendors are still providing 32 bit builds of their applications, is that still relevant? QuickTime support on Windows is one case where you may still need it, but several apps have broken out their QuickTime support into a separate 32 bit server anyway. I'm sure 32 bit builds might come in handy once in a while, but there's a cost associated to everything, I would rather see development and testing resources allocated to other priorities. Are there any important uses of 32 bit builds that I might have missed? JF To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

FreeBSD file serving?

March 17, 2013, 10:15 am

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By Brian Krusic - Hi,

Any one using FreeBSD as an NFS file server?

Curious as to your experiences.

- Brian

"All have their worth

and each contributes to the worth of others."

LTO Encryption

March 17, 2013, 4:20 pm

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By Daniel Powter -

We’ve got an upcoming film delivery on LTO5 and the contract calls for the tapes to be encrypted. I’d always been given the impression by the tape vendors that encryption was a simple matter of editing a config file to enable encryption on the drive, generating a key and then any data written through that drive would be encrypted. We would then be able to pass the key to the client, which they would locate in a location that they drive recognizes – DONE!

 

Unfortunately, it does not look like that resembles anything close to the process – and that it will actually require encryption licenses, physical key manager servers etc. and not simply part of the LTO drive/tape spec as I believed.

 

Looking to tap the depths of Studio SysAdmin knowledge regarding drive/library/backup system agnostic, preferably cheap/free LTO hardware encryption.

 

Does anyone have any experience or advice with this?