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Lifeblood is a task/job management software package
currently it aims for smaller teams, farms or even individual setups, but with scaling always in mind.
In terms of CG industry Lifeblood is a mini render farm manager, but actually it's more than that,
It is a universal task automation tool.
Rendering, simulating, caching - are all just tasks that can be automated.
watch the teaser (youtube)
Lifeblood consists of scheduler, workers and viewers
a scheduler manages multiple workers, giving them tasks to complete.
GUI tool is used to check on the state of scheduler and tasks and modify task
processing graph.
This system overview should be very familiar to anyone who interacted with at least one renderfarm.
check documentation here
and also video tutorials
- instantly and easily deployable
- easy scaling in mind
- dynamic worker resources management:
- multiple tasks may run on the same machine as long as it has free resources to run them
- dynamic GPU management: different tasks may run on different GPUs of the same machine
- arbitrary resources: want to define your own resources? it's easy!
- support for environment wrappers (allow you to integrate with existing packaging systems like rez)
- arbitrary token counting (for license management for example)
- rez environment resolver implementation
- easy cloud deployment
- be integrateable (to some extent) with existing farm managers
There are multiple ways to get Lifeblood to try it out, refer to installation section in the docs
In short - easiest way is to use Lifeblood-Manager, as described in the docs
Lifeblood-Manager can install houdini tools automatically.
For manual installation - sumbitters for Houdini and Blender are available in releases.