Frantic Software announced the release of Deadline 2.0 (build 2.0.18035) including among others a new Power Management feature, improved performance through Deadline Pulse, scriptable submission dialogs using VBscript, increased pool limit and several new plugins.
http://software.franticfilms.com/index.aspx

( Deadline is a network rendering management application )

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Some key new features include:

• The new Power Management feature can reduce energy consumption by automatically turning machines on and off based on the current farm load.
• The new Deadline Pulse application can be used to improve Deadline's performance by improving Monitor refresh rates, and decreasing Slave polling time when searching for a job.
• Monitor submission dialogs are now written in vbscript, and can be added and customized as necessary. See Deadline Scripting for more information.
• The pool limit has been increased far beyond the previous 36 pool limit.
• New plugin support has been added for Maya 7.0.1, After Effects 7.0, and RealFlow3 (beta).

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