This has me very interested. I can't seem to find much information about Team Render support from Octane. How well does it work? I'd love to build some bare bones PC GPU boxes full of Cuda cards. I've been looking into building a render farm for several months now but Octane with Team Render support for C4D seems like infinitely better solution. Hell an iMac with some brute force GPU boxes even sounds like a possible winner if that works well.
He releases his "pre-releases" on the forums. Here you can get RC1 on Mac and RC2 on PC. Team render works, but only with machines that have Octane standalone and plugin installed. So it's not a very cheap solution yet. The new Octane SDK supports rendering nodes and once that is out, C4D Octane will support that. We have 4 machines running Octane, so only those machines are used for TR
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=36331
why not just set up a render farm and administer it from your macs?
Thats how we do it at my job and we run a Mac Pro headless as the farm server, and a bunch of PC's as the render nodes. It's all managed from a web browser, and I only have to see the ugly windows side of it when we update from 13 to 14 or install Poser or some other plugin.
You could just as easily use Mac's or PC's for the nodes, I believe there is a C4D Linux client but I haven't tried that yet.
That is fine if you are
not doing GPU rendering and are
not using r15. GPU rendering in not supported via NetRender. Also, r15 eliminated NetRender in favor of Team Render.
Interesting that you bought custom made , water cooled PCs and chose windows 8, for 11k each you should have asked for windows 7 if you wanted a stable platform.
I guess you have never met hardcore gamers / benchers. The reason top of the line PC motherboards support 4x SLI / crossfire is for gaming. You essentially bought a gaming PC. As a secondary the setup also makes a decent rendering PC. I just hope the motherboard , ram etc you bought was for a stable system and not cutting edge gaming.
Are the systems overclocked?
Loving the titans in the Mac Pro !
No. We just spend $22k all willy nilly.
Yes man. We know exactly what we got. I spent roughly 2 months researching, talking to manufacturers, getting ideas form the Octane community, etc. It came down to 2 companies after a month or so of research. Digital Storm and Boxx. Boxx wouldn't put 4 Titans in a single case and DS did more stress testing on the machines they built, so we went with the DS machines. Though we are currently looking again at other Boxx solutions for expansion (as well as DS again).
We
NEEDED the 4XSLI. It was a mandatory thing. Yes we know these are gaming rigs and I did mention that in the thing you quoted from me. Yes, we researched and asked about just about everything in these machines.
I'm guessing you are not aware of GPU rendering. For GPU rendering, a gaming machine is a stable machine. Essentially, these machines are rendering a video game. Same stresses on the machines.
As far as Windows 8 goes, it hasn't had a single issue. DS recommends it because their software is written for it. There may be some GPU improvements too, i don't know. They stress test the hell out of everything for 3 days straight before shipping. All seems well. As long as i don't have to see the Metro interface, i'm good w/ Win8.
