I have some servers that I used to use for cpu rendering but since I moved to gpu rendering, I don't use them anymore. I'm interested in trying distributed simulation, however, the servers don't meet the minimum requirement for the gpu. Do I need to meet that requirement since I won't be using the houdini gui?
i don't think that you need the gpu specs. you will run houdini in the console. you can try to install houdini on one of the server and try to run hbatch / hython.