Distributed rendering

How the farm works

Coordinator, artists, and render nodes: the Eclipse farm architecture.

Distributed mode turns your LAN into a private render farm. Artists submit from Eclipse; a coordinator plans work; render nodes claim slices and write frames back to shared storage.

Roles

  • Artist app: submit, monitor, Insights, and farm UI.
  • Coordinator: central planning, worker registry, job/slice state.
  • Render Node: headless (or tray) worker that renders assigned frames.

Typical flow

  1. Shared project files live on storage every machine can access.
  2. Artist submits a farm job from a supported DCC.
  3. Coordinator splits the frame range into slices.
  4. Online nodes claim slices according to scheduling rules and capacity.
  5. Completed frames appear in job progress, logs, and preview where available.

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