[Clusterusers] still need info on cluster use for grant report ASAP

[Michael A. Bordas]

I used fly for a few cs334 renders, beyond the cs223/fish shots. I  
rendered the occlusion(lighting) for u1_03 a few times. I don't  
remember exactly, but I may have also done some of the rendering of  
u7_11 on fly, which was water FX- the office falling into the broken  
water tower.

michael

On May 27, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:

> I'm going to send this to the list so that others can elaborate  
> (Chris Perry is away, so perhaps he won't be checking email this  
> weekend, so although I don't have as much info as he does, maybe it  
> will suffice)
>
> Brian Kendall rendered his div III, which from my perspective had  
> lots to do with really pretty looking Maya grass, on the  
> temporarily combined cluster. However, I haven't seen it yet, and I  
> don't know the title of it. I'm cc'ing him on this email so that he  
> can fill you in.
>
> I think Evan Viera did some of the rendering for his Div III on the  
> cluster, but I'm not sure. I'm cc'ing him as well so he can give  
> details if necessary.
>
> cs223 (graphics for programmers) used the cluster to render a bunch  
> of very memory and processor intensive scenes, in particular two  
> "crowd" scenes that had thousands of characters each, with  
> procedural variations on each character. We were rendering them at  
> HD res (1920x1080), and it used so much RAM that even on the 4GB  
> nodes we had to split each frame into four pieces, because the node  
> ran out of RAM, then ran out of swap, and then prman crashed,  
> understandably :)
>
> Michael or Perry, did cs334 do any rendering on the cluster this  
> semester? The borders between cs334 (Originally Computer Graphics  
> III, otherwise known as The Uprising Project - Chris Perry's  
> advanced computer graphics course, which spilled over into an  
> independent study by the name of Computer Graphics IV this Spring)  
> and cs223 are somewhat fuzzy at times :)
>
> Let me know if I can be useful in any other way.
>
>    -Josiah
>
>
>
> Lee Spector wrote:
>
>>
>> Cluster users,
>>
>> I have to report to NSF on the use of our cluster, which they have  
>> so  generously funded, and I have to do it this weekend -- it's  
>> due next  week and there are nasty consequences if it is late. So  
>> far I have  some information on cluster use by:
>>
>> Jaime Davila
>> Rob Anderson
>> David Prude
>> Wm. Josiah Erikson
>>
>> I also have mention of use for classes cs334 and cs223, but not  
>> any  details about this usage, and use by people with first names  
>> Michael,  Brian, and Evan to "render all kinds of stuff, Brian in  
>> particular  for his Division III."
>>
>> I think I have almost enough info(but not quite -- see below) on   
>> Jaime, Rob, and David's work and from Josiah on the cluster  
>> upgrades  and status. But I still need:
>>
>> - Full names and more info about usage of Michael, Brian, and Evan.
>> - The title of Evan's Div III.
>> - The title of Rob Anderson's Div III.
>> - The title of David Prude's Div III.
>> - More info (about a sentence each) on how it was used for cs334  
>> and  cs223.
>> - ANY OTHER USAGE BY ANY OTHER FACULTY FOR RESEARCH/ART/ETC PROJECTS
>> - ANY OTHER USAGE BY ANY OTHER CLASSES (WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS)
>> - ANY OTHER USAGE BY ANY OTHER STUDENTS (WITH FULL NAMES AND  
>> BRIEF  DESCRIPTIONS OF USAGE)
>> - ANY PUBLICATIONS OR OTHER PRODUCTS (THIS INCLUDES DIV IIIs)  
>> WITH  ALL AVAILABLE CITATION INFO.
>>
>> Sorry to be a pest about this, but considering how much money NSF   
>> gave us for this they deserve a full report (and we should give it  
>> to  them if we want more money in the future!).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  -Lee
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Lee Spector, Professor of Computer Science
>> School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College
>> 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359
>> lspector at hampshire.edu, http://hampshire.edu/lspector/
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>>
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