iRender: Powerful Cloud Render Farm for OctaneRender

Why do you need a render farm for Octane Render?

OctaneRender is a GPU-accelerated, unbiased, and spectrally correct render engine. It combines fast speed with high precision to deliver high-resolution images in only minutes utilizing ready-to-use graphics cards. Octane is both standalone software and a plugin that seamlessly integrates with many major DCC applications like 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Daz 3D, Lightwave, Maya, Modo, Rhino, Softimage, Unity, Unreal Engine, etc.

However, to get the most out of Octane, like many other 3D software, your computer needs to be a powerful enough configuration for rendering. According to Otoy, the computer configuration that meets the optimal performance for Octane has a minimum of 8GB RAM and recommends 16GB of RAM or more. At the same time, OctaneRender requires the latest CUDA® 10 drivers and a CUDA-enabled NVIDIA® video card with support for compute capability 3.0 or higher. For Octane Version 3.03.2 or higher, Nvidia GTX Titan X, GTX 1080, and GTX 1070 are recommended, and with Octane Version 3.08 or higher, Octane users should use Nvidia RTX or Nvidia Titan V.

If your computer does not meet the above technical requirements, you can choose one of the solutions such as investing in a suitable machine or upgrading an existing workstation. However, you can also choose a faster, more economical, and optimal way is use a render farm.

One of the advantages render farms for Octane Renderer in recent years is iRender Farm - the new generation and powerful cloud render farm that is easy to use, control, and especially cost-effective for speeding up your workflow. Don’t let you wait long, we are going to explore iRender Farm in the next part now.

Speed up OctaneRenderer with a powerful render farm - iRender

iRender offers a render farm based on the model of IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). It allows you to rent the GPUs and CPUs on the cloud for 3D rendering. With the platform of iRender, you can fully control the rendering process, hardware, software and replicate your personal work environment.

Easy to replicate work environment

You can easy to replicate your personal work environment on the iRender’s server and install any plugins, software, feature, custom script, etc. If you want to have more than one environment to speed up render time in your project, you only need to install all the software just once. All data and installed software/applications will be stored after each use and ready to use anytime. iRender also has many options for you to switch between configuration packages without setting up your working environment again, ensuring the optimal cost of each project.

Evidently and powerful hardware

For Octane renderer, all of iRender's GPUs are RTX 3090, which is presently one of the most powerful GPU types available, with robust heavy-duty processors having multiple cores and high clock speed to support the heaviest workload. In addition, you will get 100% performance of our physical machines once you use them. And there is no hidden cost for storage of files transferring, you will just pay for the time your machine runs.

Easy to choose the right rendering package

iRender provides a wide variety of packages with powerful CPU & GPU ranging from single- GPU 1x RTX 3090 to Multi-GPU 2/4/6/8 x RTX 3090. You can choose any type of server that is suitable for your demand. Besides, iRender offers the powerful processor AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX @ 3.90GHz and 512 GB – 2 TB SSD with 256GB of RAM which helps load Octane scenes quickly, especially in heavy projects.

If you are using OctaneRender Enterprise, you can choose packages ranging from 4/6/8 RTX 3090. iRender recommends that you can even start with lower servers first to try the render farm out, and then you can switch to higher servers. You can easily change the server with just a few clicks, and all your work environments will still be saved and loaded. 

For the OctaneRender Studio license, which just works on a 2 GPU limit, you can try the server package with 2x RTX 3090 and the CPU is AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX. This server will help you maximize your rendering performance. Besides, on-demand NVLink will help you double the amount of VRAM to 48 GB which is powerful enough for very large projects/cache.

Render OctaneRender servers cost from $7.2 to $28 for node (machine) per hour and support all 3D software that uses Octane Render for rendering (including Cinema 4D, Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, Unity, Daz Studio, and more). Additionally, iRender offers Octane License for its Prime customers.

In addition, you can find out exactly what server’s specs, what type of CPU and GPU it has, how much it costs, and all information about the server configuration is published on the iRender’s website.

Finally, we understand that rendering is the most tedious stage in the creative process, but it is also the most important stage that determines the results of your work. Therefore, no doubt, the solution of iRender Farm will help you speed up Octane Render to get a high-quality product and shorten render time. 

If you want to try this render farm, you can register an account and test the server for free.