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The Supervisor controls and monitors the jobs that the Clients send to the Workers. There should be only one Supervisor on your network. For preliminary evaluation purposes, the Supervisor can be almost any machine, but for production use you should refer to the Supervisor guidelines on the Qube! Requirements page.
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The install wizard will look to make sure there isn't already a supervisor Supervisor installed on this network / subnet, and then it will allow you to click through to install the supervisorSupervisor. First it will download the additional components, and then it will install them. You should end up with this screen:
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You can launch the Qube! Wrangler GUI from here if you like, but let's keep going and finish the install. So click through to the end and exit the install wizard. But continue following the instructions on this page. <if If you are installing on Windows, at this point you get will see a desktop icon for Wrangler View>Qube! WranglerView.
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What's the difference between a Worker and a Client? A Worker is going to render frames or run simulations or do whatever tasks you want to submit. You want one of those on every machine that you expect to be able to pick up and execute a task.
A Client is a machine or interface that a person submits jobs from. Installing a Client really just means installing the User UI, which is a simpler version of the Wrangler UI. In that sense, it is optional - users can also submit from, and monitor their jobs from, the Wrangler UI.
Users User's desktop machines tend to be both Workers and Clients, so in that case you would install both. In a larger installation, there would be a lot of Workers and relatively fewer Clients. There is more detail on the Terminology page.
To do the install, we are assuming you already have a supervisor Supervisor installed on the network/subnet. You can install the Worker and Client on a different computer, or if you want to do a quick simple evaluation of Qube!, on the same one you just used for the supervisorSupervisor. If it is a different computer, it can have a different OS from the supervisor Supervisor - but if it does, you will need to go back to Step 1 and download the appropriate installer for the Worker / Client OS.
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We assume you have a dialogue box on your screen similar to the above. To verify that the Qube! Supervisor is running and sees this that the Worker (and vice versa)and Supervisor can see each other, click on "Submit basic test job". You should see it go change to "Pending" and then "Running" and finally "Success!"
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