George Pantazopoulos wrote:
> render slave (XML-RPC Render Server), I've drafted (and attached) a
> protocol spec that I submit for your comments. I have a working patch
> made that uses my protocol, which I am cleaning up and preparing for
> release.
> 
Two comments: 

(1) Did I miss anything or is there no client authentication?
    Since the only "render farm" I could use is available to more people 
    than me alone, I'd never use something which does not at least have 
    some challenge-response auth. 

(2) In case we have 20 computers for a render task and parsing + photons 
    (only?) takes 5% of total time, then the complete overhead is 100%, i.e. 
    we spend twice as much CPU*computers as necessary. 
    Overcoming this by having the client doing the parsing and send the 
    internal state to the server, however, is probably really hard to do. 
    This is IMO only a problem when rendering animations (per-frame rendering 
    time normally relatively short) or scenes which need a lot of parsing. 

Wolfgang

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