Overview

A Simplygon Grid system involves the following components:

  • 1 Simplygon Grid Server acting as an orchestrator as clients send processing jobs to the server which are then forwarded to connected (processing) Agents, which in turn send processed jobs back to server that then may send the processing result back to the issuing client, such as the Simplygon UI.
  • 1..* Simplygon Grid Agents connected to a specific Simplygon Grid Server.
  • 1..* Simplygon Grid clients (such as the Simplygon UI) that creates and sends processing jobs to the Simplygon Grid Server.

The above Simplygon Grid components may all exist on the same machine, or work in a distributed fashion where each component resides on separate machine.

To administrate and monitor the Simplygon Grid system, the Simplygon Grid Admin Utility may be used to for instance disable specific Simplygon Grid Agents remotely or check which jobs are currently running on all connected Simplygon Grid Agents. The Simplygon Grid Admin Utility may be run on an arbitrary machine and connects to a specific Simplygon Grid Server that shall be administrated and monitored.

System

Simplygon Grid system overview
System overview showing the connection between clients, server and agents.

Execution graph

Simplygon Grid execution graph Simplified execution graph depicting job status transition during various stages of component communication.

Setup

See the Setup Simplygon Grid article in Installation & setup for how to setup Simplygon Grid once installed.