How To : Network Rendering (GPU DR)

[jblessing]

Thanks for the quick response. I missed that page somehow…it is all working fine now!

[jblessing]

So as you could guess, we just bought Octane and have been testing it out before we build out 2 GPU workstations and 2 render nodes. What is the most reliable/recommended way to net render a number of C4D/Octane scenes and still be able to work in Cinema 4D?

Right now we have our old workstations with one CUDA card each to test on. Rending with Octane in the render queue, with the main workstation's GPU set to low priority, I can still work in C4D on projects without Octane. If I try Octane projects, I can't get the live viewer window to show up. If we add more GPUs to the main workstation, can we render in Octane in the render queue and work on Octane projects in C4D?

[aoktar]

So as you could guess, we just bought Octane and have been testing it out before we build out 2 GPU workstations and 2 render nodes. What is the most reliable/recommended way to net render a number of C4D/Octane scenes and still be able to work in Cinema 4D?

Right now we have our old workstations with one CUDA card each to test on. Rending with Octane in the render queue, with the main workstation's GPU set to low priority, I can still work in C4D on projects without Octane. If I try Octane projects, I can't get the live viewer window to show up. If we add more GPUs to the main workstation, can we render in Octane in the render queue and work on Octane projects in C4D?

Octane cannot work two render session on a host program. This is a behaviour. You can start a second C4D and continue to work on your projects. this command line is to start second C4D: "Cinema 4D.exe -parallel"

[cbcboctane]

Hi,
My master is a mac pro, i'm using a pc as a slave with two GTX 780.
I activated my standalone on the pc and when i activate the network rendering on my master (mac pro),
i see that the two gpu's are running on the PC.
But now i cant't activate my plugin because the standalone is activated on another machine.
Is it really possible to work with only one standalone license, do i need a second license on the master?


Christophe, Belgium

[rodross]

This isn't working for us, and we just bought 5 licenses so we need an answer ASAP if possible. We can't seem to find a way to changes the subnet to scan a range higher than x.24. All the computers on our network are higher than that. We've looked through the DR tutorial and it says you can change it, but nothing as to how...

[aoktar]

Rodross,
Have you tryed to use "_install_daemon.bat"? It should do some automatic detection for clients.

[rodross]

Rodross,
Have you tryed to use "_install_daemon.bat"? It should do some automatic detection for clients.

I would need to run that on the master?? It's been ran on the client. NEITHER computer can see any subnet over x.24.

[bepeg4d]

hi,
firstly use the latest standalone version for setting up the octane network render.
on the slaves, run the install_demon_bat script and press enter to all the questions and finally pres y.
Restart all the slaves and verify in the console window the settings. Allow the private network in the firewall windows. If all is going well, when you activate the network in the master preferences, all the slaves will be visible and enabled. Then close the standalone and work with cinema activating the network render option.
My machines have all ip numbers greater then 100 and are all visible in both mac and win systems
Remember, you can have only 12 GPU (internal + network) per master for now.

[Augustronic]

Activating the slaves within the Cinema 4D network rendering settings only works with the standalone open in the background.
Otherwise it's not touchable.

[aoktar]

Activating the slaves within the Cinema 4D network rendering settings only works with the standalone open in the background.
Otherwise it's not touchable.

can you drop a PM to Abstrax