Apple Qmaster


Apple Qmaster is a system made by Apple Inc. that provides automated work distribution and processing for high-volume projects created with certain digital visual effects software packages: Shake, Autodesk Maya, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and any UNIX command-line program. It processes such jobs on a cluster of Mac or Xserve computers.

History

Qmaster was introduced as part of Shake 3, to complement the Rendezvous networking technology. It was later available with Shake and as part of DVD Studio Pro, and is now available exclusively with Compressor.