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Software Description:
Muster 8 is Virtual Vertex next generationrender farm management system for film production, gamedevelopment, and visual effect industry. Built on the top ofstate-of-the-art technologies coming from twelve years ofdeveloping and stress testing all around th world, Muster maximizesyour render farm and let you delegate the resources monitoring to acomplete automated environment.
Made by dynamic fault tollerant services, it takes care of yourfarm by monitoring its usage, recovering from faults and even poweroff your racks when they are no longer needed.
We know that your deadline is priority number one, that’s whyMuster lets you manage your render farm with no interruptions inthe rendering process. Add more hosts, disconnect them from thefarm, start the renders when no one is logged or even when a screensaver starts. This is all handled automatically by Muster assigningtasks on the fly! Your renders will continue under anycircumnstance!
Modern production environments must handle hundres of content typeand have to deal with different operative systems. Choose to deployyour render engines on the best operating system for yourenvironment giving you the flexibility you need. Mixed environmentsare fully supported using our internal substitution path engine.You are able to run the same job across different platforms and getback exactly what you expect with no surprises.
Muster integration with render engines is accomplished through itsbuilt-in template system. The template system let you define withan easy macro language how to integrate with the external batchrenders
and let you also design the submission view in a dinamic way. Youcan add fields, selectors and checkboxes that directly translatesto command to send to the render engine in a bunch of seconds.
Templates also allow you to customize Muster behaviours on anengine basis. Embed custom actions to perform at any point in therender process, define licensing limits or special rules directlyinside
the template. Keep the options available to the end user as loweras possibile and do the hard job behind the courtains! Muster isalso able to dispatch single frame images across multiple hosts(available for Maya and 3D Studio Max). The images are divided inslices rendered on multiple hosts simultaneous and
then assembled back by the Dispatcher in a final coherent image.Image slicing is particular usefull when you need to produce highresolution images for printing. Increase your slices number and letMuster render it in a bunch of minutes.
Here are some key features of “Muster 8”:
– Totally multithreaded server engine allows unlimited scalabilityon multicores system
– Tailored for high end installations with autotuning preemptiveupdating and data exchanging system
– Integrated web service based on jQuery let you mange your farmsusing multi-touch events on your iPad or tablet
– Integrated management environment with visual realtimefeedback
– Python based application support template system (write your ownplug-ins to support additional render engines in pure Python)
– Python 2/3 , C/C++, Java, .NET, Perl and PHP API to controlserver and clients from your own code
– Wake up features through Magic packet, manually, scheduled orautomatic, automatic shutdown of hosts based on customizable rulesor overall load
– Screen saver enabler let you start the renders when your screensaver is running
– Custom actions through external executables or interpreters likePython
– In process or external SQL complaint database support usingsqlite or mysql libraries
– Integrated users and groups management with permissions. Supportsfor LDAP and Active Directory authentication servers
– Enterprise class network logic with fault tollerance in mind,automatic connection recover and chunks reassignment
– Support for splittable jobs (multiframe), image slicingrendering, single host processing or process broadcasting
– Dynamic connections/disconnections of render slaves
– Support for multiple packages with built-in fully customizabletemplate engine
– Integrated image library for image slices automated assembling(single frame jobs)
– Realtime visual feedback and configuration GUI supportingone-click propagations of configurations (Muster console) and fullfeatured command line tool (Mrtool).
– Internal historing system for activity processing and reportgeneration
– Remote hosts realtime log streaming
– Support for availability time tables to set time rules
– Support for automatic login detection (when running as service ordaemon)
– Customizable reports in Muster console
– Integrated connector for Autodesk Maya
– Automatic network drive detection and mapping on Windows
– Hierarchical job management using nested folders
– Import/Export of queue snapshots
– Pool management to include/exclude jobs in a subset of hosts
– Integrated mailing list management and realtime notificationabout events
– Support for job dependancies, start jobs after the completationof a different one
– Support for floating point frames as well as negative frames
– Support for 64 BIT external processes
– System usage snapshots available in Muster console / Webserver
– Sortable and customizable views with custom workspaces
– Detailed hosts usage monitor with user configurable alarms onprocessors usage, available disk space and memory usage
Installer Size: 60 + 54 MB
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