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SideFX Karma UBL Licenses

Deadline
#21

I setup Deadline cloud and submit a Houdini 19.5 Mantra, Karma and even a nuke job, but I’ve not really got down to understanding where, what, how this is being packaged, it writes out a bunch of yaml
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and it renders out a donut

STDOUT: [13:55:44]   reading geometry from /tmp/houdini_temp/ifds/storage/5352_19.5.805_mantra_.2_000_0015.bgeo.sc
STDOUT: [13:55:44] /obj/torus1/torus1(loading...)
STDOUT: [13:55:44] Generating Image: /sessions/session-489fe87ddeb24a49af8d3f2474c8ae53wq5t734g/assetroot-b66edd80467e57962bbd/render/19.5.805_mantra_.mantra1.0002.exr (1280x720)

I’ve no idea how to read the logs because they’re so different to Deadline Original

I’m assuming it must be relatively straightforward to create a OJD plugin for Deadline Original?

I’ve no idea how custom plugins are made either, or how you specify specific versions of Houdini, OCIO etc.

Feels like you need to be a developer to start using DeadlineCloud rather than Deadline Original which was simple straight out the box rendering.

Also I don’t see the cost breakdown for the job, transfer cost, compute cost and license cost
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I just paid $3 to test that option

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I’m not sure it’s any clearer where the costs go

Where does the Karma and Houdini Engine license factor in here?

I found the pricing options for the dcc’s hidden in an expanding menu on this page

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Aslo this is confusing from the blog you linked

It makes it sound like you can use the Karma VPC UBL on Deadline Original

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but you state it doesn’t
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further down it mentions you can use on prem render

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I’m so lost on this, I got the faq’s up

and saw this

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which takes me back on the documentation merry-go-round and looks like the worker needs an Amazon image?

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This sounds right, but the next page…

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#22

Hello! I’m just about done for the day, so I’ll add some clarity where I can.

AWS Deadline Cloud UBL can only be using from an AWS machine. It can be running Deadline 10’s Worker or AWS Deadline Cloud’s Worker.

You can run the AWS Deadline Cloud Worker on premise, but it won’t be able to use AWS Deadline Cloud UBL.

@PostMotion I read your message as you have on-premise machines currently using Deadline 10’s UBL and weren’t sure if you’d be able to use AWS Deadline Cloud UBL from your on-premise machines? If I’m off the mark I’m sorry I misread!

And for everything in the docs I’m not quite following your train of thought - if you hit that feedback button on the page people get tickets put into their backlog about them, so please don’t hesitate to do so! :smiley:

#23

I must be really dumb because this is really confusing to me.

  1. Can I run DeadlineOriginal™ on DeadlineCloud™ and it will use UBL -VPC?
  2. Can I connect my on-prem renderfarm to DeadlineCloud™ as a fleet?

I think I’ll create a separate post for Deadline Cloud

#24

I read your message as you have on-premise machines currently using Deadline 10’s UBL and weren’t sure if you’d be able to use AWS Deadline Cloud UBL from your on-premise machines? If I’m off the mark I’m sorry I misread!

Nope, that’s exactly what I was asking. Unfortunate news, but thanks!

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#25

No worries, it’s a big service with its own similar but sometimes different terminology.

1- Could you elaborate on this one? If you’re running the Deadline 10 Worker in EC2 it will be able to use the VPC endpoint that Deadline Cloud UBL is served on. For those EC2 instances the licensing endpoint will be available as if there was a license server on the LAN.

2- Yep!

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