I've been researching Render Farms. I was thinking that the tgdcli.exe application was used on the render nodes to accept commands from remote nodes but I no longer think this is the case as it is nearly the same as tgd.exe. Looks like tgdcli.exe is still a GUI app that only gives an additional console interface for status output and, perhaps, command input. So how does a TG2 render farm work? Do you just install the same distribution that you install in your workstation? So does the controlling workstation just submit work to each render node to render one frame at a time or are whole sequences batched to each node? Does anyone have experience with using a TG2 render farm and know how it works? I am assuming that these render nodes can also serve as LW render nodes.
