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Running the collective service program
A small lightweight "service" program (or daemon in Linux) need to be installed on each machine that is part of a collective. To install the program on a Windows workstationFor that, run the following command:
On Windows:
C:\> collective -installservice
On macOS run the following two commands:
% mv /Applications/3Delight/com.3delight.collective.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ ← to launch the licence server when the current user logs in
% sudo mv /Applications/3Delight/com.3delight.collective.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/ ← to launch the license server when the system is started.
On Linux (WIP .: ... ) :
Additional Notes
- A server/computer can be part of one or more collectives. As is the case in the example above ("server01" is part of 3 out of the 5 collectives).
- With each server/computer name, you can specify a number of cores, eg. "server01,16". This limits the number of cores that will be used when rendering using this computer by invoking the collective it is part of. If the number is not specified, eg. "server01", then all the cores will be used.