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.
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.