Dave Hollands

this will probably never happen... like Arnold GPU KarmaXPU is built on top of Nvidia OPTIX API (why it took 5 years and not 10-15), they'd have to rewrite the engine to get it working on anything other than Nvidia GPU's. It also means unless the OPTIX API supports it, KarmaXPU won't - e.g out of core geo on XPU.

There's a couple of farms I use regularly for rendering from other DCC's.

I've asked them about Houdini support and they claim, despite their desire to support Houdini on their farms, SideFX don't support public renderfarms, and that gridmarkets is the only "official" render farm.

Can someone from SideFX confirm? This seems a peculiar limitation/policy, especially when there are a many farms that just resell houdini UBL rendering on AWS through a GUI.