DR node assignment

Corona Corona for 3ds Max General
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Is there any way to alter the way nodes are assigned to different clients (?) rendering on the same network?

We have a render farm running in our office, with most of the nodes on DR most of the time. If someone starts off a job that gets all the nodes, and the next job waits rendering only on the client machine until they become available again. It would good if there was a way to split the number of available nodes across the number of jobs rendering, or at least to manually reassign nodes during rendering.

Does this exist already?

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With native Corona’s DR you can only manually specify a list of nodes to be used, and then they can be auto-discovered and re-join during rendering.

For the task you described, I think you would need some render manager such as Backburner or Deadline.