Parallelism on different machines

[danvica]

I know Octane can use multiple GPU on the same PC.

Is there any plan to let it work using multiple GPU on different machines ?

In our office we use a render machine with a GTX480 but we just bought two CAD workstation that mount Quadro FX1800. Since we are starting to render lot of animations (during night time) would be nice to use this power too.

Actually we could buy two more licenses and separate each animation in different pieces but I would preffer working on a single console.

Maybe just for animation... I like the idea to have a quick preview of the material setup, and for this one GPU is enough, and then bake everything on the network.

Thanks.

[ROUBAL]

Actually we could buy two more licenses and separate each animation in different pieces

Imho, that sounds like the best solution.

I think that distributing on a network would be very slow, and pulling back informations on the same cable to display the result on one screen seems very complicated and slow too if even it is possible...

[danvica]

Yes, me too I think that in real time rendering the network link would be a bottleneck.
But if you need to use Octane for animation you don't need to refresh the console display in real time.

Anyway it was just an idea... I'd like using all the avaible power