and as expected, 20 seconds later, it errors with an inscrutable error code: I want instant status reports, I waste too much time looking at tractor jobs that don't appear to be doing anything. Shouldn't pdg have appropriate fallbacks for that? Swap the python entry on the tractor scheduler from $PYTHON to /usr/bin/python:Īlright, job is on the tractor queue, not erroring. This is with the default pdg settings, it should work surely? Had a a look in the terminal that launched houdini:īoo, $PYTHON isn't defined. [2 16:43:03 exec failed - program executable not found: $PYTHON Still, some visual indicator would be nice.) Python missingįine, delete the local scheduler, try again. (Edit: You right click on the scheduler, 'Set as default scheduler'. Can't see any clear place to set the default scheduler. Hmm, the tractor libraries are 2.2, the webserver reports its running 2.3. Have to remember the details, ugh, lucky I wrote these down:Īlright, fail right out of the gate, 'cannot find tractorscheduler' fair enough, we have tractor in another rez package, close houdini, launch in a new rez environment that includes tractor this time: It shouldn't.Ĭan we submit this on the farm? Lets try. Got bored after 7 frames, clicked the red X to kill the job. Can see it slowly chugging away, 1 frame at a time. Single frame, clicked cook output (little triangle in the top toolbar with an orange bar on it). Skip down to HoudiniTops#Working_setup to see the important things that needed adjusting.ĭay 1 Local mantra render /mnt/ala/mav/2020/sandbox/users/matt.estela/pdg2/mantrarender.hipnc Things improved substantially by day 4, but there was a lot of angry words and thoughts in the first few days while I reacquainted myself with PDG. Houdini 18.0.460 and tractor 2.4 on day 5įull disclosure this is opinionated, sweary, lots of my frustration with the process is all recorded here.Houdini 18.0.481 and tractor 2.3 on day 1.I'm starting this diary on 2 June so I can keep track of my progress. My aim is to get solid tractor support by August 2020. We'd like to access all that power with PDG. We have a pretty big farm at UTSALA (about 130 centos machines with 56 cores per machine on average, so about 7000 cores) which is managed through Pixar's Tractor. If you want impartial concise PDG advice, stop reading below this line:
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