Gelato Network Rendering Guide

• 1 Gelato Network Rendering Guide
  • 1.1 Submitting Gelato render jobs to Deadline
    • 1.1.1 Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog
    • 1.1.2 Step 2: Set Your Submission Options
    • 1.1.3 Step 3: Submit Your Job

Submitting Gelato render jobs to Deadline

Gelato jobs can be submitted from the Deadline Monitor.

Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog

In the Deadline Monitor, open the Gelato Submission Dialog from the Submit menu.

Step 2: Set Your Submission Options

The general Deadline options are:

• Job Name: The name of your job (if left blank, it will default to "Untitled").
• Comment: A simple description of your job (can be left blank).
• Department: Your department (can be left blank).
• Pool: The pool that your job is submitted to.
• Group: The group that your job is submitted to.
• Task Timeout: The number of minutes a slave has to render a task for this job before it requeues it (specify 0 for no limit).
• Priority: Your job's priority (0 = lowest, 100 = highest).
• Enable Task Timeout: Whether or not to use the timeout given.
• Concurrent Tasks: The number of tasks a slave should dequeue for this job at once.
• Limit Tasks To Slave's Task Limit: Whether or not to limit the number of tasks the slave rendering this job can concurrently do.
• Machine Limit: The maximum number of machines that can render your job at one time (specify 0 for no limit).
• Machine list: A list of slave machines that is either blacklist or a whitelist.
• Machine is a blacklist: Whether or not the machine is a blacklist, if not it is a whitelist.
• Limit Groups: The limit groups that your job requires.
• Job Dependencies: Jobs that your job is dependent on.
• Submit As Suspended: Submit your job in the suspended state.
• On Job Complete: The action to perform on the jobs completion. Options are Nothing, Delete, or Archive.

The Gelato specific options are:

• PYG Files Select the PYG file(s) that you would like to render using the browse button. If a sequence of PYG files exist in the same folder, Deadline will automatically collect the range of PYG files and will set the Frames field accordingly. Deadline will also display what the output filename is.
• Frames: The list of frames to render.
• Output File: Shows the output filename (read-only).
• Use Image View Buffer: If this is enabled a window will open up showing the image as it renders.

Step 3: Submit Your Job

Click the Submit button to submit the job to Deadline.