Nvidia has revealed Iray Server, designed to allow distributed networks to pool resources to work on high-performance renders. Iray coordinates machines into WAN clusters, combining their resources to speed up the creation of images during development. 

Iray Server can also stream interactive rendering from the server to another machine and submit jobs to a queue for easy management, allowing users to manage the queue from any browser able to reach the network, even on mobile. Users can also modify and resubmit work without having to go back into the host application.

Previously submitted work is fully cached so the same data is never sent twice, and nodes can come and go from the cluster at will without stuffing up anyone’s jobs. Iray Server works on machines running Nvidia GPUs, offering cloud plug-ins for industry standard applications including Autodesk 3DSMax and Maya.