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iRay Server? Possible or a waste of time?

paul_ae567ab9paul_ae567ab9 Posts: 231
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

You can get a free 90 day trial of Iray Server.  Can it even be used with DAZ to spread renders to other machines to free up local DS to keep working?

Yes...I did intall and set up lux and it works across network but it is sooooooo slow taking many hours to do what Iray does in less than one hour.

I've tried copying the .duf file to second machine to just let DS render it over there but I have all kinds of missing files issues on the second machine even though DS is using the EXACT same directory of assets via a mapped drive as the main computer.  the structure on both machines is IDENTICAL !

So...can one use Iray Server and how would one render to the server from DS rather than sending to the built in Iray which ties the machine up?

Thanks smiley

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  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,588
    edited October 2016

    I played with the Iray Server for a few months.

    The server can queue renders in "Batch mode" ...BUT... Daz Studio can not! sad

    The current Daz Studio can only use "Interactive mode". That means loading the server with Quadro cards (only Quadro cards work in Interactive mode). You can then get your real-time rendering handled by the server.

     

    A possible reason your DUF files have missing links is because Studio builds and stores the links between files in the 'data' directory in "My Library". I would start a new thread about that issue.

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  • paul_ae567ab9paul_ae567ab9 Posts: 231
    prixat said:
     

    A possible reason your DUF files have missing links is because Studio builds and stores the links between files in the 'data' directory in "My Library". I would start a new thread about that issue.

    Where is this data directory and name of the file that contains path info?

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,634
    prixat said:

    I played with the Iray Server for a few months.

    The server can queue renders in "Batch mode" ...BUT... Daz Studio can not! sad

    The current Daz Studio can only use "Interactive mode". That means loading the server with Quadro cards (only Quadro cards work in Interactive mode). You can then get your real-time rendering handled by the server.

     

    A possible reason your DUF files have missing links is because Studio builds and stores the links between files in the 'data' directory in "My Library". I would start a new thread about that issue.

    Is Interactive Mode a shortcoming of the Iray Server software?  That seems really odd that batch rendering would be disabled for Photoreal mode when that's how most people are going to be using Iray.

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,588

    The server is fully functional with both modes in other software.

    It's the 'client' in DS that is currently limited.

    Perhaps the server is still too much of a moving target for DAZ to code to. 
    As part of the Pascal upgrade, I understand the server is being updated again to support NVLink and the DGX-1.

  • MaxHancockMaxHancock Posts: 226

    Is iRay working with the new Titan X cards in Daz studio yet? 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,781
    MaxHancock said:

    Is iRay working with the new Titan X cards in Daz studio yet? 

    Pascal versions? No, but the change log showed they added the release SDK to an internal or private beta yesterday.

  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
    edited May 2022

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  • xxvinal77xxxxvinal77xx Posts: 11
    cridgit said:

    I've successfully rendered a DAZ Studio scene on an Iray Server cluster across multiple machines (GPU + non-GPU). See tutorial here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/132951/tutorial-iray-server-render-farm-batch-rendering-for-daz-studio

    Happy rendering!

     

    any tutorial on how to render via aws?
  • xxvinal77xxxxvinal77xx Posts: 11

    I figured it out, its a complete waste of time - Daz connects, but you need a HUGE upload speed to even thing about transferring data (I have a slow 2Mb up connection) I built a second aws server to run jobs from to the server, but the speed is not that great on rendering, I was able to render faster locally with my 980ti. 

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