[Cin] Render farm - client nvenc and main none, can this work?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

Oh that sort of speedup would be very good, let me play around with reset
rates. Currently I'm using 50% CPU on the desktop and about 60% on the
laptop when rendering, definitely room for improvement. I will also compare
with desktop-only (nvenc), but if I can double the current speed I get I'd
be more than happy.

Thank you very much!

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 5:48 AM Phyllis Smith via Cin <
cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:

> Discussed this with GG and he provided the following tips based on a video
> that plays in 1 hour running at full speed.  In his final render on an AMD
> desktop computer with many threads, he breaks this up into 20 threads using
> a local render farm (just the 1 computer) so it only takes about 5 minutes
> to render the whole thing  -- in your case on your Ryzen desktop with 16
> cores a smaller number would be good.  such as 16 maybe.  One thing he said
> to be sure to do to optimize this is to "Reset rates" in the Render Farm
> menu so that the jobs are evenly distributed.  In deciding how many threads
> to use, he suggests looking at the output of the linux command "top" to see
> how much cpu is being actually utilized on a typical render.
>
> Recently however the render times have been becoming a problem. Also, I
>> now have a second machine (desktop) with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and an nVidia
>> 1660. I've set up renderfarming and it seems to work fine (my one and a
>> half hour render is down to half an hour). Now I'm wondering whether that
>> nice graphics card can be used (without me having to actually sit at the
>> desktop, I'd much rather work/edit on my ultrabook with all its attached
>> monitors) for editing.
>>
> I am not quite sure if I understand this correctly, but I would do all of
> your editing on your laptop first and when time to render just move the
> project to the desktop and do the final render there using the render farm.
>
>
>>
>> It seems whether nvenc gets used depends on whether I select h264-nvenc
>> (or h265-nvenc) on the main machine, but obviously I can't do that on this
>> particular main machine.
>>
>
>
>>  Is there a way to get this to work, or am I forced to choose between
>> software renderfarm and single-machine nvenc (in my specific situation, I'm
>> assuming that if I had two nvenc-capable machines this would work fine). Or
>> is there some cuda-related speed up I could use?
>>
> Although I can not test whether a software render farm or a double-machine
> nvenc is faster, gg thinks that a localhost render farm would be faster
> than using 2 nvenc graphics card enabled computers because there would be
> contention on the path to the graphics cards.  It could be slower to have 8
> threads using 2 cards than having 16 software threads.  There does not
> appear to be a cuda-related speed up available as far as I know.
>
> Perhaps, I have confused this answer.  If so, please reply.
>
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