Available now for a free 90-day trial, Iray Server coordinates a network of machines as a 'cluster' to speed the creation of images.
Ever wish you could harness the power of an entire network of workstations to make light work of your most complex designs? Now you can, with Iray Server, NVIDIA’s distributed rendering software.
Available now for a free 90-day trial, Iray Server coordinates a network of machines as a “cluster” to speed the creation of images. It runs on the hardware of your choice, and you can use it with any NVIDIA Iray physically--based rendering product -- like NVIDIA’s plug-ins for Autodesk 3dsMax and Maya or software products that use Iray -- without any overhead of the host application.
Iray Server is a great tool for designers and the production companies employing them because it speeds up the creative process. Machines running Iray Server coordinate with each other to reduce the time needed to render an image, allowing users to process images in a fraction of the time it would take on a single machine.
Users can stream interactive rendering from Iray Server to another machine, allowing a laptop to have multi-GPU power when using NVIDIA professional GPUs.
Users from across the network can submit jobs to a queue for easy management with the ability to manage the queue from any browser that can reach the network -- even from a phone. Submitting jobs is fast, easy and reliable. There’s no reliance on paths or naming, and previously submitted information is securely cached so the same geometry or image is never sent twice.
To further simplify your workflow, users can modify and resubmit jobs without going back to the host application, and systems can join or leave the cluster without canceling an ongoing job. What you see rendering locally will render the same in Iray Server across the network -- a rare claim, indeed.
Set up is incredibly simple, requiring only a minute or two to install the software, double-click a new desktop shortcut, and get straight to rendering.
Source: NVIDIA
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
