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Lifeblood is a task/job management software package
currently it aims for smaller teams, farms or even individual setups, but with scaling always in mind.

In terms of CG industry it's a mini render farm manager, but actually it's more than that,
In terms of CG industry Lifeblood is a mini render farm manager, but actually it's more than that,
It is a universal task automation tool.
Rendering, simulating, caching - are all just tasks that can be automated.

it consists of **scheduler**, **workers** and **viewers**
watch the teaser (youtube)

[<img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZYDpVIwP4Og/maxresdefault.jpg" width="50%">](https://youtu.be/ZYDpVIwP4Og)

Lifeblood consists of **scheduler**, **workers** and **viewers**

a scheduler manages multiple workers, giving them tasks to complete.
GUI tool is used to check on the state of scheduler and tasks and modify task
processing graph.

This system overview should be very familiar to anyone who saw at least one renderfarm.
This system overview should be very familiar to anyone who interacted with at least one renderfarm.

check [documentation here](https://pedohorse.github.io/lifeblood)
and also [video tutorials](https://pedohorse.github.io/lifeblood/tutorials.html)
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### Features:
- instantly and easily deployable
- easy scaling in mind
- dynamic slots, worker resources management
- dynamic worker resources management:
- multiple tasks may run on the same machine as long as it has free resources to run them
- dynamic GPU management: different tasks may run on different GPUs of the same machine
- arbitrary resources: want to define your own resources? it's easy!
- support for environment wrappers (allow you to integrate with existing packaging systems like rez)

### Features To Be Done:
- arbitrary resource requirements
- arbitrary token counting (for license management for example)
- worker capabilities (automatic versioned worker "groups")
- rez environment resolver
- cgroups environment resolver
- rez environment resolver implementation

### Even Further Future Features
- easy cloud deployment
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