Hi list, I'm planning to extend my small renderfarm (mental ray). One softimage network license comes with 5 batch licenses plus one interactive license for softimage itself, which acts as a full batchrender license when softimage is not used. So far so good but... AD says that xsibatch.exe can also use up to 4 satellite CPUs. If all render nodes are single CPU systems...does this mean, I could (theoretically) utilitize 24 (6x4) machines with batch rendering? (Six nodes, each running one xsibatch.exe and four satellite nodes each). With one softimage license?
I know about the pros and cons regarding distributed tile rendering but that's an other story. The question is, is this possible? Maybe someone tried it already. Of course bigger studios doesn't care about it, but small shops or single freelancers could make some use out of it. I could just throw 5 additional rendernodes into the farm, each acting as a satellite for one of the other 5 nodes. Would cost me a third of a 2nd softimage license, that I wouldn't use anyway... greets Sven
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