Cluster Computing

Hardware Hub Networking
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I would like some advice on how to do some computer clustering. I have 18 GPU's in 3 Ubuntu machines that I control via PuTTY on a windows 10 machine. I would like to know how (if it is possible) to cluster these GPU's together so they can all be used for a single task by a single program. (rendering in Blender)

Thanks

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Only clustering I ever did was years ago with a Beowolf cluster. As far as I know it can support GPUs.

EDIT: Sorry not helpful I know

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Search for "blender clustering" (I assume there are some software solutions).

There is no universal way of clustering especially in case of GPUs (with exception of very dedicated hardware and operating systems/platforms) and not in the way you described it.
There are some specific applications (as software) that can distribute workflow among multiple nodes (actually multiple running applications/servers/agents). They split the work that need to be done multiple tasks that are executed in parallel by multiple hosts and/or processes.

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proxmox?

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Did this in 5 minutes or so and I have no idea how complicated this would be to actually accomplish seeing as you would have to get Blender to send its request to a bus of some kind, then have that bus be fast enough to not only send instructions to a cluster but accept & route completed instruction sets back to blender. If this seams like nonsense that's because it is lol

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google blender render farm

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Thanks for the info. Wile I was only using Blender as an example your search suggestion put me on the rite path.

I think this is what I was looking for: http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_vcl.html

But I think I am going to be back with questions about speeding up my network.

Thanks again!

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I checked out Proxmox and I do not think it will do what I need. It looks like a Browser version of VM Ware which I already use, but thank you for your input. It is always helpful.

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I don't think that what you described was nonsense at all. That is why I have the GPU's in the first place, I am script mining Ethereum (for a very nice profit over my electric costs.) And what you described is basically a mining pool setup.

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