IT WORKS!!!

[gabrielefx]

Hi all,
finally I upgraded my Octane licenses to check if the distribute render worked
..and the answer is: YES!
You don't need any extra host licenses. In my case I use Max.
Octane for Max is an highly engineered software because I tried every gpu based renderer with networked workstations without full success.
I installed the plugin and Octane standalone and it worked like a charm at the first click.

Here you can see a render computed with a total of 12 gpus: 4 Titans + 4 GTX 680 + 4 GTX 580
Tomorrow I will replace my "old" 580s with the new Titans Black

But, today you can render with your "old" gpus and have unlimited textures....

The dark side is represented by the slow performance but we get unlimited textures, displacement, motion blur, fur, etc...This is the price to pay.

I think that Karba and friends will find new algorithms to boost up the performance

regards

[voon]

I don't understand this post. I read:

"Yay, distributed render, tons of GPUs at work"

and then

"but it is slow, that's the price to pay"

You have confused me

[smicha]

What was the render time? Is it PMC?

[gabrielefx]

PT 12 bounces
1,8 hours for each render
12 mixed gpus

I mean:

less features = fast renders
and vice-versa

The topic says: "it works"
I can confirm that 12 gpus work all together
I always asked for this feature.

[voon]

All local or did you render across the internet with PCs of friends?

[rappet]

All local or did you render across the internet with PCs of friends?

Look at gabrielefx his signature... He has got his own renderfarm
Man, what a rigs

[charlesp2]

Nice, awesome job getting all those GPUs working man... But 1.8 hours per render ?? Really :S.. . I'd rather leave them cooking a lot less and use NiceImage noise remover plugin for Photoshop? Still, very awesome! And a little sad to see that 12 GPUs STILL take 1.8 hours for a still-noisy interior.

[glimpse]

But 1.8 hours per render ?? Really..

I've actually though the same, Charlesp2.

OK, Gabriele, I do understand that it's interior,
but something could be done to remove noise
- with 12GPUs & almost 2h..

[RobSteady]

Great images.
But rendertime is scary for 12 gpu's

[prodviz]

Great to see the network rendering working, cheers for posting.

On the render speed, would it fair to say that the rig with 4 x 580's (which each have 512 cores) could be compared to just under 1 x Titan Black (which has 2880 cores)?

And that the rig of 4 x 680's (which each have 1536 cores) would be similar to just over 2 x Titans?

So, coupled with the 4 x Titan rig, the render power is similar to 7 Titan GPU's?

Still a chunk of render power