V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering

Chaos Group has posted an article discussing V-Ray Swarm, the company’s web-based, streamlined distributed rendering system that allows to use all the compute power of a local network and render using either the CPU or GPU. The system is currently available for V-Ray for Revit, V-Ray for Rhino and V-Ray for SketchUp, and the developers are looking to port this to V-Ray for 3DS Max and Maya in the future. According to the article, they are also looking at other tools to expand Swarm and increase the compute power that is available to the user on a much larger scale, making instant rendering a possibility. More on Chaos Group Lab’s website.