Finder/ OS X UI locked up

Hi, my MacPro is operating at full tilt (CPU usage maxed out). I tried doing a little 3D modeling yesterday, but the whole UI locked up. The pointer changed to the spinning beachball and then stopped spinning. The clock stopped, the mouse pointer can still move around, but the UI doesn't respond to clicks or keyboard shortcuts.
The computer is still rendering and I can still access the shared folders from another computer so I'd like to let the machine keep working uninterrupted. Is there a way to reset the gui without restarting the whole computer and having to deal with a interrupted multi-day render?

There is a distinct possibility the cause of this issue may be
something requiring, in the least, a restart and diagnostic to
be able to find out what else is going on in the computer & OS.
{Of course, if it really is actually working on that file, then maybe
it could take some hours for it to resolve this situation. Or not.}
Check and repair the hard disk drive, perhaps even more, may
be required activities; and to do so would involve unmounting it.
If the GUI worked, you could probably quit specific items in the
Activity Monitor that were not working or behind the problem.
But that does not seem very likely, while still trying to render a file.
And it may not succeed in actually doing so, if the hard disk drive
is too full and things have ground to a stand-still.
There are some possible alternative answers, but while the Mac
is not responsive to the inputs from mouse or keyboard, those are
unlikely to work. And, as you know, the file may be damaged as it
hangs there. The reason behind all of this is where the work begins.
To find the status of the OS and the computer; and discover if there
is a co-relation between the hardware and software symptoms, and
then go about rectifying whatever the causes are behind this failure.
You will more than likely, have to restart the computer to get into it.
And then see if the booted Disk Utility on the Installer disc could help.
Good luck & happy computing!

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