February 2010
1 post
Backend Changes
To increase the pace of our progress on DistRen, we are switching our queueing system to MySQL. This will provide many benefits, such as a more integrated http frontend, and will make development move along a lot faster.
January 2010
1 post
Connectivity and User Management
Our user manager in the server code is now pretty much complete. We have yet to integrate it with our client-server communication interface and distrenclient to allow user registration through various methods. Client-server connectivity via remoteio now has calls in the client and server code, and will likely near completion very soon.
The distren website is now available at http://distren.org/...
September 2009
1 post
Queueing Functionality
More development has gone on, and the server code is beginning to take shape. The linked-list queue and frameset array appear to be nearing the point at which they may be functional. Also, some control functions have been written to make the manipulation of the jobs an the server itself possible.
DistRen seems like it may reach Milestone 0 within the next month or two, depending on the...
July 2009
2 posts
Milestone 0 Set
The hope is that by the end of August, we will have reached Milestone 0. Milestone 0 will be the point at which we can distribute frames to clients. The clients can be manually registered, require manual configuration, and other things undesirable in a final release. If we reach this milestone soon, it will allow for more slow and incremenal progress while the developers attend college. The...
Progress
The majority of slave and client code for job management and assigning has been written, and client code can now handle rendering frames. We now must standardize an XML format for jobs to be given to slaves, and we must finish remotio—the code that handles slave communication over SSH.
Also, development is starting on a QT-based gui, and a web interface will be built before long. These...
April 2009
1 post
Details and roadmap
More details have been defined, as shown in new conf files in the repository, and eventually we plan on distren being a multi-homed system with multi-user storage, although we have yet to ponder the implications of this type of system. Single-homed will be the goal for now.
Be sure to check out our roadmap, topology, and design plans at http://protofusion.org/wiki/DistRen
March 2009
1 post
Welcome to DistRen
DistRen is the open-source distributed processing framework, a project of [protofusion].
Distren will provide a lightweight framework for distributed applications, such as visual rendering with videos and animations, as well as still image rendering. Plugin-style code can be written for DistRen, providing limitless applications compatible with the distributed network.
DistRen is currently in the...