Muster 9 is Virtual Vertex next generation render farm management system for film production, game development, and visual effect industry.Built on the top of state-of-the-art technologies coming from ten years of developing and stress testing all around the world, Muster 9 maximizes your render farm and let you delegate the resources monitoring to a complete automated environment.

Muster 9 features:

• Totally multithreaded server engine allows unlimited scalability on multicores systems
• Tailored for high end installations with autotuning preemptive updating and data exchanging system
• Cross platform, runs natively on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
• Integrated web service based on jQuery let you mange your farms using multi-touch events on your iPad or tablet
• Integrated management environment with visual realtime feedback
• Python based application support template system (write your own plug-ins to support additional render engines in pure Python)
• Python 2/3 , C/C++, Java, .NET, Perl and PHP API to control server and clients from your own code
• Wake up features through Magic packet, manually, scheduled or automatic, automatic shutdown of hosts based on customizable rules or overall load
• Screen saver enabler let you start the renders when your screen saver is running
• Custom actions through external executables or interpreters like Python
• In process or external SQL complaint database support using sqlite or mysql libraries
• Integrated users and groups management with permissions. Supports for LDAP and Active Directory authentication servers
• Cross platform interoperability across Windows, Linux and MAC OS X
• Enterprise class network logic with fault tollerance in mind, automatic connection recover and chunks reassignment
• Support for splittable jobs (multiframe), image slicing rendering, single host processing or process broadcasting
• Runs as console applications, Windows services or UNIX daemons
• Dynamic connections/disconnections of render slaves
• Support for multiple packages with built-in fully customizable template engine
• Integrated image library for image slices automated assembling (single frame jobs)
• Realtime visual feedback and configuration GUI supporting one-click propagations of configurations (Muster console) and full featured command line tool (Mrtool).
• Internal historing system for activity processing and report generation
• Remote hosts realtime log streaming
• Support for availability time tables to set time rules
• Support for automatic login detection (when running as service or daemon)
• Customizable reports in Muster console
• Integrated connector for Autodesk Maya
• Automatic network drive detection and mapping on Windows
• Hierarchical job management using nested folders
• Import/Export of queue snapshots
• Pool management to include/exclude jobs in a subset of hosts
• Integrated mailing list management and realtime notification about events
• Support for job dependancies, start jobs after the completation of a different one
• Support for floating point frames as well as negative frames
• Support for 64 BIT external processes
• System usage snapshots available in Muster console / Web server
• Sortable and customizable views with custom workspaces
• Detailed hosts usage monitor with user configurable alarms on processors usage, available disk space and memory usage

What's New:

Version 9.0.14:

• Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

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