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At home iray server. Is it possible?

milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 288
in Daz Studio Discussion

I have a bunch of old (yes still compatible with iray) gpu servers and I was wondering if I could use one (or all three) as an iray server instead of renting one since I already have them. Is that possible and if so how?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 101,032

    You would need the Iray Server application, $299 per machine per year I belive. You could have each rendering a different scene independently, however.

  • milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 288

    Do they have a monthly subscription?

  • DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 988
    edited September 2023

    Well, something has changed.

    I just went onto the iray server site, and apparently, it's 'free' now, just have to provide your name, email, and some other info.

    I can get it running locally, single system, but haven't quite figured out how to get cluster mode enabled or connect to any other machine on my network.

    Anybody playing with the current version of iray server know how to do this?

    EDIT/UPDATE:

    Did some testing with stand alone mode, and the overhead isn't going to be worth it.

    Lost too much vram on my gpus, 384MB on my m40's, and 559MB on my P40, plus 200MB on my video out card on my main workstation, quadro m4000.

    Since i regularly do scenes that are right at the edge of the gpus Vram, the time  it might save me, compared to opening a DS instance and loading the scene on my render box, isn't worth having a render fall back to cpu. Especially when i only have a quadcore in one of my render boxes.

     

     

     

     

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  • milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 288

    What m40 and p40 are you using? How 

    many? how big of scenes? Depending on the scene and the type of m40 and p40 (and in my case also what type of quadro) 2x 12gb quadro and 8x 24gb m40 should be enough plenty as that's a total of 216gb vram. If that's not enough for you you're either a doing professional productions or horrible at scene optimization. That's plenty (if not overkill) for me 

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