This page provides information on the V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering service.
V-Ray Swarm is the new V-Ray Distributed Rendering manager, the next evolution of V-Ray Distributed Rendering, offering a number of features that make rendering with V-Ray even faster. Currently, V-Ray Swarm is available in V-Ray for Revit, V-Ray for Rhino, and V-Ray for SketchUp. Its interface is accessible by a web browser. Overview
For more information on how to use and operate V-Ray Swarm within V-Ray for SketchUp please refer to the Swarm page.
For more information on how to use and operate V-Ray Swarm within V-Ray for Rhino please refer to the Swarm page.
For more information on how to use and operate V-Ray Swarm within V-Ray for Revit please refer to the Operating Swarm in Revit and V-Ray Swarm QuickStart pages.
V-Ray Swarm controls V-Ray Distributed Rendering on each render node machine; the actual rendering is handled by V-Ray Standalone. All that is needed to dedicate a machine as a V-Ray Distributed Rendering slave, is to install and run V-Ray Swarm on it. V-Ray Swarm discovers and adds machines for rendering, handles the installation of V-Ray Standalone builds on each machine, starts and stops the rendering process, monitors CPU, RAM, and GPU resources per system, and deploys the configuration of V-Ray on all V-Ray Swarm machines with a single click. V-Ray Swarm makes V-Ray Distributed Rendering easier than ever. The new features that V-Ray Swarm adds to V-Ray Distributed Rendering are: Each machine participating in the render job requires a V-Ray Render Node license. This includes the workstation initiating the rendering process. V-Ray Swarm does not provide licenses. Instead, each render node must be connected to a V-Ray Online License Server.
System Requirements
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray Swarm.
Windows
Processor | Intel® Pentium® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support (x64) |
RAM | 256 MB RAM |
USB Port | USB 1.0 required for hardware lock |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported, IPv6 is currently not supported |
Operating System | Windows® 7 and newer (64-bit versions only) |
Mac OS X
Processor | Intel® Pentium® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support (x64) |
RAM | 256 MB RAM |
USB Port | USB 1.0 required for hardware lock |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported, IPv6 is currently not supported |
Operating System | Mac OS X 10.7 and newer (64-bit versions only) |
Linux
Processor | Intel® Pentium® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support (x64) |
RAM | 256 MB RAM |
USB Port | USB 1.0 required for hardware lock |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported, IPv6 is currently not supported |
Operating System | CentOS 6 / Debian 8 / Fedora 17 / openSUSE 13.0 / Ubuntu 14.4 and newer (64-bit versions only) |