Mixing 32 and 64 bit machines in the same render farm?

[Jim]

I'm pretty thrilled having found nXtFarm for AutoCAD, as it will solve a problem I've been grinding away at for awhile now. The problem is, I'm the only person in the whole office who uses a 64 bit computer. Can I run the 64 bit version on the host machine and 32 bit on all the clients?

[Alejandro Testa]

HI, I tried this with two machines  (one 64 bits the other one 32 bits) in a earlier version with a small model and it works

[Jim]

Thanks!

[Ian Foster Griffith]

I run farm with 9 computers 3x 32bit and 6x 64bit. No issues,

use a server to hold the path file. So the computer holding the path files is not farm rendering.

Work better I think.

Only problem is getting the farm to use the 64bit computer first.

[akinlolu olugboji]

Try suspending the 32 bits till all the the 64 bits being assigned tasks.

Ian Foster Griffith said:

I run farm with 9 computers 3x 32bit and 6x 64bit. No issues,

use a server to hold the path file. So the computer holding the path files is not farm rendering.

Work better I think.

Only problem is getting the farm to use the 64bit computer first.