Distributed Render with Two Machines (CPU Only on Mac and CPU + GPU on PC)

[JabbaTheNut]

Hi,

Is it possible to do distributed/network rendering where one machine is a Mac and is set to CPU only and another machine is a PC set to CPU + GPU?

[savage309]

Yes, should work just fine.
To show the V-Ray GPU render engine on Mac OS you need to set env var VRAY_MAC_GPU=1, as it is not officially supported because there are no Macs with NVIDIA GPUs.

You will need extra render node license for the extra DR machine though.

Best,
Blago.

[JabbaTheNut]

Hi Blago,

Thank you.

For clarity, are you saying I need the following licenses (assuming the Mac is the primary machine)?

1 GUI + 1 Render license for the Mac

and

1 Render license for the PC

[yolov]

Yes, that's correct. As distributed rendering will make use of both machine at the same time, both machines will need a render node license. Since only the primary machine is going to run Maya, only that machine will need a gui license.

[JabbaTheNut]

Awesome! Thank you