Running Farmerjoe Remotely

One of the reasons that the command line is emphasized so heavily here is the ease with which it can be used for remote operations. Rendering for The Beast was generously donated by Reed & Witting Company, a high end commercial printer located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (http://www.reed-witting.com). The resources I was able to use totaled four render cores on Linux machines, four on OS X machines, and eight on Windows boxes. This gave the farm 16 processor cores to work with. Not the mind-boggling strength that Pixar or the big boys use, but it was enough for me.

To operate the farm remotely, an SSH tunnel was created through the firewall, reaching a VNC server that resided on the master machine: an OS X computer. ...

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