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 Macs or Xserves.
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.Qmaster clusters could be created and managed using Apple's Qadministrator app, which was included with Shake, Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio.