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Glossary

Common Eclipse terms: job, slice, coordinator, render node, GPU split, and more.

Term	Meaning
Job	A render submission with frame range, engine, paths, and priority.
Slice	A contiguous frame range assigned to a farm worker for a job.
Coordinator	The farm service that plans slices and tracks workers.
Render Node	A machine (or GPU slot) that claims slices and renders frames.
Local queue	Jobs executed on the current workstation only.
Distributed	Mode that uses the coordinator and networked render nodes.
GPU split	Treating each GPU on a multi-GPU machine as a separate worker slot.
Spool	The farm process of creating and dispatching work for a job.
Shared root / project	Network path where scenes and outputs are visible to all nodes.
Insights	Statistics views for local and farm render activity over time.
Integration	DCC plugin or submit path (Houdini, Maya, Blender, Solaris).
Engine	Renderer used for the job (Redshift, Arnold, Karma, Cycles, …).