Afanasy 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 24.04

Overview

Afanasy is the render farm manager from CGRU, an open source computer graphics tools pack. Its afserver is the central coordinator that dispatches rendering work: render nodes connect to it, pull tasks and report progress, while artists and administrators submit jobs and watch the farm through afserver's built in browser web monitor. The monitor is a live render farm dashboard showing jobs, render nodes, users and their logs, so a studio can see queue depth, node health and per task output at a glance. Afanasy is engine agnostic and drives any command line renderer, which makes it a lightweight, self hosted alternative to proprietary render management for visual effects, animation and archviz pipelines.

Common uses

• Coordinating a visual effects or animation render farm across many render nodes
• A self hosted, engine agnostic alternative to proprietary render management
• Watching queue depth, node health and per task logs from a browser dashboard

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.