[BOINC、独立平台] [动画渲染] Open Rendering Environment (Renderfarm.fi)

姫海棠 果

2010-08-07

News from Assembly 2010: Renderfarm.fi experiencing "slight issues"



Thursday morning we experienced a meltdown of the scale that we've never experienced before. Nice timing too! I'd just picked up Janus Kristensen and Kalle Max Hofmann from the airport when I heard the news. First I was hopeful, then melancholic, then angry at myself for not backing everything up, then again hopeful, melancholic .. well you get the idea. It's almost like this nice video of a Finnish drinking evening (by "those awful Swedes" ;-).

Basically what happened was that because of the huge sessions that we'd been taking on, we actually ran out of diskspace on the server, which in combination with a screaming database caused the meltdown. Actually we'd done this before, but recovered without any serious side-effects - which probably led me into believing that it's not that big of an issue. Well, lesson learned for yours truly. Couple this with the fact that backups are quite non-existent at the moment (another thing that's getting "a bit" more attention from now on) and you have a major screw up in your hands.

Anyway now it seems that not all is lost.  Although we haven't still turned on the back-end, the UI (basically Drupal) seems to be nearly back in shape. We will try to get the BOINC side up and running as soon as possible. Meanwhile, here's us at our fantastically helpful ISP Otaverkko, who went out of their way to help us. This is us on at their main server hall, wondering what's up with our fantastic Dell Edge server (picture of that coming up later).

PS. Apart from all this, unnecessary hassle Assembly is looking good and all the whole Blender.fi community is having a blast. More about this later when we have the time.

姫海棠 果

2010-08-08

Although many of you have probably noticed this already (either from reading my personal blog entry from last night or then by wondering on to the Server Status page), we're back in action. Our back-end is receiving and distributing work units as per normal, even while the web frontend will require some more work to get to the state where it was before the crash.

However, there's an important note to all new registrants: the server is currently not sending in your validation email. We know of this and will send your emails to you after the weekend. Thank you for your patience!

I'm going to meet up with the ISP Otaverkko during the week to get us more diskspace and a good back-up plan for the future. So this episode will hopefully not repeat itself anymore in the future. Meanwhile, I'd like to thank the dynamic duo of Janus Kristensen (BURP guru) and Olivier Romand (Renderfarm.fi main developer) for their hard work. A big cheers also to Otaverkko, where we had to visit twice - both times after hours (great service policy I tell you).

Renderfarm.fi

From the left: Janus Kristensen, Olivier Romand, Tuomo Karhapää (Otaverkko)

in front of the Otaverkko main offices in Espoo, Finland

姫海棠 果

2010-08-25

Renderfarm.fi is fully up: "Ship Ahoy!"

作者：prodigal_son

I'm excited to announce that we're back up and things are as they were before the storm that struck us on the eve of Assembly 2010. The issues with the email sending have been solved and the web front-end is moving forwards. All this in mind, I'd like to welcome all the new users that have been waiting at the shore for the past two weeks (we're working on a solution to send an invitation mail to all who registered during this time right now).

As we move out of the low waters, I'd now like to invite you all to discuss about the future features of Renderfarm.fi. An example of an ongoing development discussion is the idea of using a video hosting service such as Youtube or Vimeo to host the encoded videos. What do you think about this topic?

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