Muster 9 is Virtual Vertex next generation render farm management system for film production, game development, and visual effect industry.Built on the top of state-of-the-art technologies coming from ten years of developing and stress testing all around the world, Muster 9 maximizes your render farm and let you delegate the resources monitoring to a complete automated environment.

Muster 9 features:
* Totally multithreaded server engine allows unlimited scalability on multicores systems
* Tailored for high end installations with autotuning preemptive updating and data exchanging system
* Cross platform, runs natively on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
* Integrated web service based on jQuery let you mange your farms using multi-touch events on your iPad or tablet
* Integrated management environment with visual realtime feedback
* Python based application support template system (write your own plug-ins to support additional render engines in pure Python)
* Python 2/3 , C/C++, Java, .NET, Perl and PHP API to control server and clients from your own code
* Wake up features through Magic packet, manually, scheduled or automatic, automatic shutdown of hosts based on customizable rules or overall load
* Screen saver enabler let you start the renders when your screen saver is running
* Custom actions through external executables or interpreters like Python
* In process or external SQL complaint database support using sqlite or mysql libraries
* Integrated users and groups management with permissions. Supports for LDAP and Active Directory authentication servers
* Cross platform interoperability across Windows, Linux and MAC OS X
* Enterprise class network logic with fault tollerance in mind, automatic connection recover and chunks reassignment
* Support for splittable jobs (multiframe), image slicing rendering, single host processing or process broadcasting
* Runs as console applications, Windows services or UNIX daemons
* Dynamic connections/disconnections of render slaves
* Support for multiple packages with built-in fully customizable template engine
* Integrated image library for image slices automated assembling (single frame jobs)
* Realtime visual feedback and configuration GUI supporting one-click propagations of configurations (Muster console) and full featured command line tool (Mrtool).
* Internal historing system for activity processing and report generation
* Remote hosts realtime log streaming
* Support for availability time tables to set time rules
* Support for automatic login detection (when running as service or daemon)
* Customizable reports in Muster console
* Integrated connector for Autodesk Maya
* Automatic network drive detection and mapping on Windows
* Hierarchical job management using nested folders
* Import/Export of queue snapshots
* Pool management to include/exclude jobs in a subset of hosts
* Integrated mailing list management and realtime notification about events
* Support for job dependancies, start jobs after the completation of a different one
* Support for floating point frames as well as negative frames
* Support for 64 BIT external processes
* System usage snapshots available in Muster console / Web server
* Sortable and customizable views with custom workspaces
* Detailed hosts usage monitor with user configurable alarms on processors usage, available disk space and memory usage

System requirements
Windows

For professional versions, minimum OS version is Windows Vista 64 tested up to Windows 10
For server versions, minimum OS version is Windows Server 2008, tested up to Windows Server 2016
4096 MB RAM
1 GB free on system disk

Linux

Linux 64 BIT Kernel 2.6.35 running GLIBC 2.13 or greater. CentOS 7 x64 and Fedora 14 x64 are our compiling and testing platforms.
4096 MB RAM
1 GB free on system disk

Mac OS X

Mac OS X 10.5.8 or greater (tested up to High Sierra)
Intel based 64 BIT system (PPC support has been dropped)
4096 MB RAM
1 GB free on system disk

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