Please, I have 4 gpus in one computer now. Is there any management system, which could help me distribute the HOUDINI _OCL_DEVICENUMBER and run more instances of Houdini simultaneously, each calculating distributed slice on one computer? I have asked ThinkBox Support (their Deadline can distribute renders 1gpu:1frame) and I got answer, now the situation is this: “ I am not aware of any plans to add that support, but I will pass your interest in this along to the dev team for future consideration. ”


Well, I am just a small freelancer trying to get maximum of my hw and sw, I have Indie license. I am not doing big VFX, ram on those cards is ok for my sims. Maybe my needs are not from big business, so the tools are not typical for my needs, which is understandable.

Should I wait for SideFX to automate or use multiple GPUs?
Or create my own automated batches, HDAs? Can it be automated and managed quite easily?
Or search for other management software?
What do you think? Do you have any indices?


Thank you for any insider info or heads up.