Ability to Simultaneously Render Two different Scenes (1 with CPU, 1 with GPU)?

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Is this possible? I have two scenes to render: one is set to use GPU, one is set to use CPU. Is there a way I can have one computer render both at the same time?

Thanks!

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Hello @stusic

Thanks for reaching out, It is possible by creating multiple workers on your machine. You can create two workers one for GPU and another one for CPU and create Groups in Deadline by adding each worker to the corresponding group. Then, you need to submit GPU Job to Group created for GPU which has GPU worker added to that group and same for CPU Job.

You need to ensure that running both Jobs at the same time doesn’t cause machine running out of Resources , otherwise that should be fine.

Can I know what DCCs you are trying to run ?

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Thanks, that might just work!

I’m rendering out 3ds max scenes using the Arnold render engine.

EDIT: @Nreddy Actually, how would I create two workers on the same machine? Is there a way to duplicate existing workers?

EDIT EDIT: Neveremind, I see you linked to multiple workers already. Thx.

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