Houdini Network Rendering Guide

Submitting Houdini render jobs to Deadline

Houdini jobs can be submitted from within Houdini or from the Deadline Monitor.

In the render menu, select Submit to Deadline.

The general Deadline options are:

Job Name: The name of your job (if left blank, it will default to "Untitled").
Comment: A simple description of your job (can be left blank).
Department: Your department (can be left blank).
Pool: The pool that your job is submitted to.
Group: The group that your job is submitted to.
Task Timeout: The number of minutes a slave has to render a task for this job before it requeues it (specify 0 for no limit).
Priority: Your job's priority (0 = lowest, 100 = highest).
Enable Task Timeout: Whether or not to use the timeout given.
Concurrent Tasks: The number of tasks a slave should dequeue for this job at once.
Limit Tasks To Slave's Task Limit: Whether or not to limit the number of tasks the slave rendering this job can concurrently do.
Machine Limit: The maximum number of machines that can render your job at one time (specify 0 for no limit).
Machine list: A list of slave machines that is either blacklist or a whitelist.
Machine is a blacklist: Whether or not the machine is a blacklist, if not it is a whitelist.
Limit Groups: The limit groups that your job requires.
Job Dependencies: Jobs that your job is dependent on.
Submit As Suspended: Submit your job in the suspended state.
On Job Complete: The action to perform on the jobs completion. Options are Nothing, Delete, or Archive.

The Houdini specific options are:

Houdini File: The Houdini file to be rendered.
Output File: The output filename.
Houdini Renderer: You must manually enter a renderer (output driver) to use.
Frame List: The list of frames to render.
Task Group Size: The number of frames per task.
Submit Houdini Scene File: The Houdini file selected will be submitted with the job.
Version: The version of Houdini to use
Build to Force: The build of Houdini to use

Click the Submit button to submit the job to Deadline.