distributed rendering more than 10 nodes

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I have two licences and dongles. One license and dongle installed on two workstations. I am unable to add the 11th node when submitting a distributed rendering job. I have both of my licences available in my client license settings on all machines.

I’m using 1.5 SP2, VIZ 2008 XP pro.

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attach both dongle to one pc runing the license manager
spot the other workstation to the IP in charge

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Thanks I’ll give that a try.

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Don’t OS’s have a limit of 10 consecutive connections? Only way around is to use a server OS.

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Is this still the case? Even if you use the patch?

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I think this concerns only file sharing connections; V-Ray DR uses TCP/IP as the network protocol and you can certainly have more than 10 of these at the same time.

Best regards,
Vlado

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So that would mean you could use more than 10, without server-OS, if you make sure that a maximum of 10 nodes point to the same share for textures etc.

For example: a copy of the resources/textures on the 11th node could then be shared for the next 10 nodes. UNC-paths can’t be used then, you need to use mapped drives.

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maped drives are bad!
in taht case u should probably save the files into each node…
c:\work\maps
:wink:

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true, better :slight_smile:

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I was gonna ask this in a different thread, but its not too far off topic.

does 1 licence = 10 nodes (ie 1 quadcore = 4 nodes or 1 IP = 1 node) ?

Raj

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1IP = 1 Node. Number of processors or cores doesn’t matter :grin:.

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thanks for that:

excellent news.
Now all I need is a transputer array and I’m set.

quick renders, and nothing to eat. :frowning:

Raj

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You just need to set up a license server and put both licenses on one dongle. Then you can use 20 nodes.