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The Network System (mxnetwork.exe or mxnetwork.app in Mac or mxnetwork in Linux) is composed of includes three components:
The Manager: it is the server computer that distributes the jobs between the available render nodes. It also merges the images in a cooperative render.
The Monitor: interface where you add jobs, assign jobs to nodes, stop a network render, display info about the current job and show a merged preview of a network render in progress.
The Render Nodes: the slave computers that actually render the frames.
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