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This page provides information on the V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering service.

 

Overview


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 RevitV-Ray for Rhino, and V-Ray for SketchUp. Its interface is accessible by a web browser. 

 

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 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 server, 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: 

  • Ensures every machine is rendering with the same version of V-Ray.
  • Provides the ability to monitor and manage the entire V-Ray Swarm network through a web interface. The percentage of computing power currently being used can be manually and interactively adjusted.
  • Monitors the state of each computer to make sure that V-Ray is active and ready, and restarts V-Ray if necessary.
  • Automatically discovers machines running V-Ray Swarm over the network, eliminating the need to manually input the IP address/hostname of each render server machine.
  • Automatically or manually assigns a computer to be the one that controls and manages V-Ray Swarm on the render node machines.

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)


macOS

Processor

Intel® Pentium® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support (x64)

RAM

256 MB RAM

USB PortUSB 1.0 required for hardware lock
TCP/IP

Only IPv4 is supported, IPv6 is currently not supported

Operating System

macOS 10.9 till macOS 13 (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 SystemCentOS 6 / Debian 8 / Fedora 17 / openSUSE 13.0 / Ubuntu 14.4 and newer (64-bit versions only)