Dai Xiaonan

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3) dumpster dive for some ewaste-tier xeons
pros - price, stability, memory capacity
cons - slow, low performance per watt

I used to have a workstation with dual Xeon 8375C CPUs (QS version), 128G RAM. Very powerful, very cheap. Now they have newer ones, like Xeon 85xx.

I encountered with this issue when I try to give my alembic a name/path attribute when packing them into a abc.

Yes, it is possible. And I am working on it.
KineFX has its own data structure, and so do Maya.
However it is doable to export maya skincluster data into a xml or json file, and read it in Houdini with python. Everything is pure text so I think it will work.