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  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
    edited May 2022

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,036

    Can you do this on a Mac with CPU only?

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,707
    edited December 2016

    May be something like this:

    4Pack RIITOP USB 3.0 PCI-E Express 1x TO 16x Powered Extender Riser Card Adapter Bitcoin
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6V84WS1391

    or for the laptop:

    IT-GO Laptop PC Express Card 34&54 to Dual PCI-e x16 Adapter Enclosure Box
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAD046B3813

     

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,640

    Note that the change log shows there are some chnages to the remote rendering support in a  forthcoming build http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/change_log#4_9_3_163

  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited December 2016

    This is a awesome post  Thank you very much for the instructions.  this is very encouraging for the future.. I have a couple of questions though.

    1) Does the $295 per year license fee cover all rendering for the year for all your projects or just for one project?

    2) Is there any added charges for gpu minutes used in the render farm when rendering multiple frames? kind of like how Pixar/Renderman charges a license  fee for access for the Tractor CPU render farm and then charges a fee for core minutes time.?

    3) last question . Does Iray render farm support RIB? . GPU rendering is kind of new to me so that is why I asked.  its great theres Maya support

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  • mambanegramambanegra Posts: 586
    Ivy said:

    This is a awesome post  Thank you very much for the instructions.  this is very encouraging for the future.. I have a couple of questions though.

    1) Does the $295 per year license fee cover all rendering for the year for all your projects or just for one project?

    2) Is there any added charges for gpu minutes used in the render farm when rendering multiple frames? kind of like how Pixar/Renderman charges a license  fee for access for the Tractor CPU render farm and then charges a fee for core minutes time.?

    3) last question . Does Iray render farm support RIB? . GPU rendering is kind of new to me so that is why I asked.  its great theres Maya support

    That $295 is a license for each machine that you own that you wish to add to your own render farm. So, you can use it for as many projects as you wish. 

    I would imagine DAZ Cloud will probably be more like what you are thinking this is, where you will pay DAZ $ for each "hour" used by your rendering. 

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited December 2016
    mambanegra said:
    Ivy said:

    This is a awesome post  Thank you very much for the instructions.  this is very encouraging for the future.. I have a couple of questions though.

    1) Does the $295 per year license fee cover all rendering for the year for all your projects or just for one project?

    2) Is there any added charges for gpu minutes used in the render farm when rendering multiple frames? kind of like how Pixar/Renderman charges a license  fee for access for the Tractor CPU render farm and then charges a fee for core minutes time.?

    3) last question . Does Iray render farm support RIB? . GPU rendering is kind of new to me so that is why I asked.  its great theres Maya support

    That $295 is a license for each machine that you own that you wish to add to your own render farm. So, you can use it for as many projects as you wish. 

    I would imagine DAZ Cloud will probably be more like what you are thinking this is, where you will pay DAZ $ for each "hour" used by your rendering. 

    Ah okay now I understand. I was confusing the owning the render farm as a cloud render farm.

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  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
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  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,590

    Hi cridgit

    Have you been able to test the batch rendering on your setup?

    The beta update log seems to say it can now queue single images (but not animations).

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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    cridgit said:

    Hi Ivy

    The way to look at it is if you setup your own rendering machine, $295 per year for the Iray Server license which assuming you render 24x365 comes down to $0.03 per hour. If you don't have a spare machine at home and need to buy one, that cost comes on top.

    Render farms will cost you less if you render much less than 24x365, otherwise you may be better off setting up your own render machine (or render farm).

     

     

    Thank you cridgit for your responce . I Understand now. . would this work if I were to set up a server type render farm?  server blades have come down in price and there easy to add GPU too.  I have 2 pc's one which has 2 - 980ti cards but i have to use both of them as a PC . and I have a older windows 3.333 Ghz server in my office that I can convert into a render type farm  i would just need to incvest in adding some new external GPU slots and EVGA cards.  could this work if I invested in 3, 980 ti's and installed them into the windows server?

  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    cridgit said:

    Hi Ivy

    The great thing about using Iray Server is that you can use both PC's plus your spare server without upgrades (it will render using CPU only). If you decide to upgrade to Nvidia GPU's for PC2 and the server it will render faster. So you could setup the rendering on 1 or 2 or 3 machines to make sure it works, then upgrade later when you have some spare cash.

     

    Well you did it..lol  you talked me into it. lol I'm going to give this try after the holidays  when things have settled down, I'll try with my old windows 2010 server and try to work it out with the instructions you provided, .. So I thank you for the step by step instructions. hopefuly i can get this work.  Did i read some where that wrote i would need a script to advance the rendering for each frames.? do you know where i might find such a script?   :)

  • mambanegramambanegra Posts: 586

    Does anyone know if you could do this with a linux machine running as the compute node? 

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  • mambanegramambanegra Posts: 586
    cridgit said:
    mambanegra said:

    Does anyone know if you could do this with a linux machine running as the compute node? 

    Iray Server runs on Windows and Linux so yes. The only limitation is that machines within the same cluster must have the same operating system. If you're using your Linux box as a standalone render node then it won't matter.

     

    So, in theory, I could use my mac as a normal DS thing that creates the scenes, but the renders would be performed by my linux render cluster of one? That almost makes the pricetag worth it! (now I have to load the scenes and render them using windows). 

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited December 2016
    cridgit said:
    Ivy said:
    cridgit said:

    Hi Ivy

    The great thing about using Iray Server is that you can use both PC's plus your spare server without upgrades (it will render using CPU only). If you decide to upgrade to Nvidia GPU's for PC2 and the server it will render faster. So you could setup the rendering on 1 or 2 or 3 machines to make sure it works, then upgrade later when you have some spare cash.

     

    Well you did it..lol  you talked me into it. lol I'm going to give this try after the holidays  when things have settled down, I'll try with my old windows 2010 server and try to work it out with the instructions you provided, .. So I thank you for the step by step instructions. hopefuly i can get this work.  Did i read some where that wrote i would need a script to advance the rendering for each frames.? do you know where i might find such a script?   :)

    Hi Ivy

    Using Iray Server currently you can only render static image, not animations. Of course you can still render the animations by hand by advancing the frame and exporting, then advancing the frame and exporting etc. but this will be very tedious. A script would do this much quicker but I haven't seen such a script yet.

    Hi cridgit  animation would be the only reason I would need a render farm other wise my pc with the 2 - 980ti cards renders quick enough for still graphic rendering.   I'm not any good at scripting and my friend Gail who was really good at it and had helped me a tons with scripts & coding in my past animation using daz studio  just passed away so it maybe a little difficult for me to make such a script my self,  so please if you know anyone that has a scirpt please post it here because that would be very helpful to be able to automatically advance the frames so we could render animation.

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  • DigiDotzDigiDotz Posts: 515

    hello Cridgit,

    I posted on anoher forum thread "Daz iray Cloud" but the thread doesnt seem to move.

    I wondered if you had the update problem - updating to iray server 2.1 causes a no license found error?

  • DigiDotzDigiDotz Posts: 515

    -its ok Got it!

    uninstalled/deleted programData then reinstalled and updated ;-)

  • Leonides02Leonides02 Posts: 1,379
    edited June 2017

    Amazing that Iray server batch rendering got implemented without hardly any hallabolou. I wonder if there's been any update regarding animation support? That's where an Iray server would be worth its weight in gold.

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  • RFB532RFB532 Posts: 94
    edited August 2017
    cridgit said:

    Hi Ivy

    The great thing about using Iray Server is that you can use both PC's plus your spare server without upgrades (it will render using CPU only). If you decide to upgrade to Nvidia GPU's for PC2 and the server it will render faster. So you could setup the rendering on 1 or 2 or 3 machines to make sure it works, then upgrade later when you have some spare cash.

     

    Cridgit, has the method you outlined for distributed renders on mutiple machines for IRAY changed at all with the latest DAZ 4.9 release?

    Does your method work for rendering IRAY animations?

    I have two workstations that have a total of eight 980 Ti hybrids I would like to network together, any advice regarding that setup?

    Is there a limit on CPU cores that Daz Iray can use?

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  • KlaudMKlaudM Posts: 76

    Hi guys, I have a problem at the last step, after clicking on Add to Queue i receive this message:

    [Benchmarks_handler] Error: Could not create snapshot

    Any idea?

    Thanks.

  • mumia76mumia76 Posts: 146

    I don't understand. I've just installed iray server on a box with a 8 core xeon cpu and dual Quadro 4000 gpus, but where is the cloud render option in daz studio? Do I also need a Quadro gpu in the client machine to be able to utilize a remote server? That would be really stupid. Get a 10K VGA, just to get access to a menu option?

  • Daywalker DesignsDaywalker Designs Posts: 3,586
    mumia76 said:

    I don't understand. I've just installed iray server on a box with a 8 core xeon cpu and dual Quadro 4000 gpus, but where is the cloud render option in daz studio? Do I also need a Quadro gpu in the client machine to be able to utilize a remote server? That would be really stupid. Get a 10K VGA, just to get access to a menu option?

    Render Setting tab, Advanced options, Bridge(Beta). It has settings for both the Iray Server and a VCA.

  • antares_23573antares_23573 Posts: 26

    Horrible, Amazing and not really cheap, but a brilliant Post!

    THX and congratulation to solve how the DAZ-3D Host can Render in this "strange" Batch-Mode :-)

  • LuminoDiscerLuminoDiscer Posts: 35

    Hi,

    What is the URL that I have to go to to set up the server?

     

  • AtanaciusAtanacius Posts: 333
    LuminoDiscer said:

    Hi,

    What is the URL that I have to go to to set up the server?

     

    https://www.irayplugins.com/iray-server/try.php

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