I'm looking to set up a small render farm for houdini. I am starting from zero knowledge as to how I would get mantra, sim data and alembics onto a render farm spread through multiple blades. I have used ouput nodes in the past but this is the first time I will be making them from scratch. Even if someone knows how to do it from command line, I would be interested in any information anybody can give me regarding submitting jobs to a render farm. I know this is a super vague question but I can supply information where needed.

Thanks.

Have you checked out this doc?

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini15.0/render/batch [sidefx.com]

Here's another interesting design. It's called Afanasy.

http://cgru.info/software/houdini [cgru.info]