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 ## CLI usage
 
 * Ensure python3 is installed
+* Checkout the Blender scenes from 
+https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib/benchmarks/cycles/ 
+into a `scenes` directory
 * Copy the `config/farm.cfg.example` to `config/farm.cfg` and edit if needed. If device_type is CPU, device_name will be ignored.
 * Run `benchmark/farm.py`
 * The results will be stored in the output_dir specified in `config/farm.cfg`