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Iray server is now 'free', but is the overhead worth it?

DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 979
edited September 2023 in Daz Studio Discussion

Original title:Iray server is now 'free', but i can't seem to get it into cluster mode.

Don't know when it changed but siemens seems to have decided to make iray server 'free'(you're the product).

Unlike previous versions i've worked with, there's no alternative for 'cluster' mode in the shortcuts.

Everything i keep coming up with is either really out of date, or doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

Edit/update: Never mind.

After doing a bit of testing in stand alone mode, i'm not going to bother going forward with it.

Iray uses, on my system, ~1GB of sysram, with CMD, and ~44MB for the windows explorer instance.

My primary gpu, quadro m4000, loses 275MB(gpu-z) and my render gpu, Tesla p-40, loses 559MB(Nvidia-SMI) of Vram.

On my render server, my tesla m40's(12GB) lose 387MB on each of 4 gpus. The main gpu on that system, loses almost nothing as it's amd.

Just some food for though for people considering using this for rendering.

Let me know what you're getting on your gpus, if you don't mind.

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  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,588
    edited September 2023

    Just downloaded it, where do you get the 'credentials' to log in?

    Nevermind, just read the email!!!

     

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  • ZiconZicon Posts: 309

    DrunkMonkeyProductions said:

    Unlike previous versions i've worked with, there's no alternative for 'cluster' mode in the shortcuts.

    You have to use the command line argument --cluster to start it in cluster mode. See the documentation for the required values.

  • DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 979

    prixat said:

    Just downloaded it, where do you get the 'credentials' to log in?

    Nevermind, just read the email!!!

     

    I still haven't gotten the email, probably went to my junk file.

    Tried the usual defaults for this kind of stuff admin/admin, and it worked.

    Gotta change the password on first boot, so it's not much of a security risk.

  • DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 979

    Zicon said:

    DrunkMonkeyProductions said:

    Unlike previous versions i've worked with, there's no alternative for 'cluster' mode in the shortcuts.

    You have to use the command line argument --cluster to start it in cluster mode. See the documentation for the required values.

    If only it were that simple.

    And the documentation bothered to include structure requirements. The multiple errors, such as file paths being wrong by default and requiring moving/copying, and showing the multiple requirements was way more helpful.

    It's more like, --cluster [tcp/udp] --master-address [ip] --[bang head on table repeatedly, i hate command line]

     

    Don't worry about it, though, the overhead just isn't worth it.

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,588

    Just doing some timings now, the server has 'Iray RTX 2023.0.2, build 367100.3997, 31 Jul 2023, nt-x86-64', which I think is newer than the Beta.

    The server is on the same pc, so it will be a direct comparison.

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