Welcome to Backburner
 
 
 

Welcome to the Autodesk Backburner 2011 User Guide. Backburner is the Autodesk® queue manager for background processing and distributed network processing. It allows multiple jobs, such as I/O operations, grading, composites, and animation scenes, to be processed by many computers working collectively on the same network. Backburner also provides the means to monitor and control the jobs you submit, as well as the tools for managing the Backburner network itself.

Backburner is leveraged by the following Autodesk applications.

  • Flint®
  • Flame®
  • Inferno®
  • Smoke®
  • Flare
  • WiretapCentral
  • 3ds Max®
  • Lustre®
  • Maya®
  • Cleaner®
  • Burn®
  • Backdraft® Conform
  • Smoke® For Mac® OS® X
     

This guide relates to using Backburner to monitor and control background processing and distributed network processing. For information on submitting jobs to Backburner from an Autodesk application, refer to the user guide for the application of interest. For information on installation and configuration, refer to the Autodesk Backburner 2011 Installation Guide.

NoteThis guide documents the Backburner Windows Monitor and Backburner Web Monitor. Autodesk applications that leverage Backburner often have basic job queue monitoring abilities built in to the user interface. Fore more information, see the applicable user guide.