Hi There!
A small question about licence before i set it up.
Since Houdini Indie Licence includes an Engine Licence as well. Is it possible then to set up a 2 workstation mini render farm in which one machine runs the server and a client and Houdini FX and the other machine runs another client, right?

If that the case then I will have to redeem the license for the Indie client in my 2nd machine and the license for Houdini Indie in my first machine.
Basically I wonder if I need to aquire an extra houdini engine licence for a 2 machine set up.

I could be wrong, but I believe that when you buy an Indie license for $199, it doesn't include an Engine license to run on a separate machine. It allows you to run Engine jobs (whether through a third-party program or a non-gui process) as well as a Houdini GUI; this is similar to Mantra having a separate license for rendering (since it's a separate process being run). Otherwise, clicking the ‘Render in Background’ on File Cache SOPs wouldn't work.

I believe you'd need to buy and Indie ($199) + Engine ($99) license to run on two machines; but it's totally possible I've misunderstood.

ok I answered my own question….
https://vimeo.com/132559209 [vimeo.com]
They explicitly mention that to run a second computer for render farm it is required an extra indie engine licence…

sorry to bother…

goldleaf
I could be wrong, but I believe that when you buy an Indie license for $199, it doesn't include an Engine license to run on a separate machine. It allows you to run Engine jobs (whether through a third-party program or a non-gui process) as well as a Houdini GUI; this is similar to Mantra having a separate license for rendering (since it's a separate process being run). Otherwise, clicking the ‘Render in Background’ on File Cache SOPs wouldn't work.

I believe you'd need to buy and Indie ($199) + Engine ($99) license to run on two machines; but it's totally possible I've misunderstood.

Ohh thank you goldleaf , you were right. You need the extra license to run on a second machine. I think I will start with one and then add my second workstation when I am more familiar with the workflow.