Pixar's Tractor – Job Distribution for Network Rendering.
 
Managing the Toughest RendersTractor is a modern and robust solution for network rendering, capable of scaling up to the largest render farms.
 
For the Toughest Jobs
Tractor is currently deployed at some of the biggest VFX studios in the industry including the Moving Picture Company, Double Negative, Cinesite, and Blizzard.
 
Dependable Stability
Derived from years of experience in managing the demands of the worlds largest render farms, Tractor’s stability has been fined tuned for the toughest jobs.
 
Tractor’s queuing engine is capable of dispatching over 500 tasks per second and utilizes proven, open web standards which make Tractor highly customizable. Systems administrators can easily add Python extension modules to Tractor-Blades and customize the specifics of how various tasks are executed.
 
Tractor-Engine
The heart of it all. Tractor-Engine maintains the central job queue and dispatches tasks.
 
Tractor-Blade
For Render blades. Tractor-Blade is a Python based execution server running on each remote node.
 
Tractor-Dashboard
The Control Center. Tractor-Dashboard is a customizable web browser user interface providing centralized control of all render jobs.