Is it possible to export an arnold `.ass` file(s) in LOPs ?
The reason I'm asking this, is because we'd like to send our renders to our farm as standalone arnold jobs, we currently use Deadline, and the deadline arnold plugin currently doesn't seem to work so well for that in houdini, I already contacted thinkbox for that, but I was wondering if you guys already were able to send Arnold jobs from houdini to deadline or simple export .ass files from LOPs.
The .ass file should reference the USD containing all the scene data normally. We currently can't send USD file directly to deadline since it doesn't yet support that.

I dont think its possible to export ass files from lops, guessing that would be a question to the arnold developers.
You should be able to load the USD to the arnold usd procedural node and write that out as an ass file for submission.
Until Deadline catches up with solaris we have created our own HDA that takes in your usd and submits that as either an husk or a kick standalone job to deadline.