Information and Initial Steps

Farm Specs

• RAM: 96 GB

• CPUs: 3.8 i7 LA2011 x3

• Cores: 18

• Threads: 36

• Manager: Thinkbox - Deadline

• Render Applications: Rhino, V-Ray for Rhino

Important Information

• Finished jobs will be deleted after 2 days. This is not an archive, inactive files and folders will be deleted without notice.

• Copy & open your file in your folder in the RENLIC network share.

• When submitting a job, your must use the absolute path to the server:

   \\ced-renlic.ced.berkeley.edu\renlic\[username]\...

• If you're using any non-default textures, you most copy those to your textures folder.

• When open, Rhino locks your file as read-only to other programs. Your job will not render until the Rhino file is closed. After you submit your job, you need to close Rhino.

Create Directory Structure

• In the RENLIC network share, create a folder with your Calnet username.

   \renlic\[username]\...

• In the user folder you just created, make a folder called textures. 

   \\renlic\[user-name]\textures\...

Submit a Job

Prepare

• Copy the Rhino file to your folder in the RENLIC network share.

• Copy and link any non-default textures to: \RENLIC\[user-name]\textures\...

• Make sure to save any changes and then click the Deadline button.

Submission Window

• Deadline's job submission window will open.
  
  

Job Description

• Job Name: How your job will be viewed in the queue. Defaults to filename.

• Comment: A brief description of your job / version number (Optional, but helpful)

• Department: ie ARCH, LAEP, or DCRP (Optional)
   

Job Options

• Ignore this section. Any changes are done at your own risk.
  

Rhino Options

• DO NOT use relative paths! ie: V:\renlic\[user_name]\...
  

• Rhino File: Rhino file to be rendered. Use absolute paths

   \\ced-renlic.ced.berkeley.edu\renlic\[user-name]\file-name.3dm
  

• Output File: This will be your finished image. Use absolute paths

   \\ced-renlic.ced.berkeley.edu\renlic\[user-name]\file-name_out.png
  

• Select your image type
  

• Renderer: Select V-Ray for Rhino. You're able to select Rhino Renderer...but why?
  

Submit your Job

• Click the 'Submit' button

• Rhino locks any file it has open and flags it as read only. It's important to close Rhino after you submit your job or else your render will throw error and eventually fail.

Check Job Status

• On the Desktop, locate the Deadline Monitor icon and double click. 
  

• This will launch the Monitor, where you can check on your render status.