Contribute to a workspace

You can connect a workstation to an existing workspace to contribute to jobs, even without having access to the original Reality Studio project.

Start a contribution

After a distributed process is submitted to the workspace, workstations can start their contribution once they're connected.

To connect a workstation and start contributing, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Project tab.
2. Click Distributed Processing.
3. Verify that the free disk space shown for the temporary processing location meets the recommended minimum. Click Change temporary processing location to access the application options and change the path if necessary.

   It is recommended that you have a minimum of 1 TB free disk space available for processing.

4. Click Contribute to a Workspace .
5. Browse to the workspace you want to connect to.
6. Click OK.

The workstation now contributes to the selected workspace as a node and can receive processing tasks.

A widget is shown in the Process Manager pane for the task that has been assigned to the workstation for processing. While the workstation is contributing to a workspace, you can also monitor the distributed processing.

Stop a contribution

Once you start a contribution to the workspace, you can stop it to remove the workstation from the process.

To stop contributing to the workspace, complete the following steps:

1. In the Process Manager pane, on the widget of the task you are currently processing, click Open the workspace monitor pane .
2. In the Workspace Monitor pane, click the Nodes tab, and click Stop Contribution .

   Note:

   Stopping a contribution cancels the current processing task and deletes its progress.

3. On the warning dialog box that appears, click OK.

The workstation stops contributing to the workspace but remains connected for monitoring purposes. To start contributing again, click Start Contribution on the Nodes tab of the Workspace Monitor pane.