3DSmax issue with SMTD but ok with monitor submission

Hi all !
First of all, I’m a newbie with network rendering, so apologies if I did big mistake… I followed the documentation to configure deadline for 3dsmax 2020 and redshift 3 on windows. The goal is to be able to render via deadline with 5 multi GPU machines. I did some tests with 2 machines (one with 2x2080ti and the other one with 2x3080ti).

  • First, I installed the repository on the first machine and then copied the repository in my QNAP NAS.

  • Then I installed the client deadline on both computers.

  • I opened the monitor with the NAS repository and configured Workers (one worker per GPU).

  • I submitted a 3dsmax job via the monitor and all works fine with both computers ! I just wonder if it is possible to submit one task per frame via the monitor ? Just to optimize by assigning one GPU per frame/task ?

In a second time, I tried to submit a job on both computers via the SMTD. I saw all my workers in the “limits” tab of the SMTD and after the submisison all seems to be fine (one task per frame like I would) but the 3080ti workers queued every tasks. Maybe I forgot something to configure… I’m a bit lost.

Tell me if you need more informations…

Thanks !!!

Ok, I found the issue…
The SMTD were linked to the local repository… I switch to the NAS repository and now everything works fine :slight_smile: