to start a render network at home,  you'd need software that allows your computers to be linked to work in unison.  such as this.
https://www.irayplugins.com/iray-server/

I use indigo,   i don't have the iray plug in so I can't say if this approach would work because I don't know how iclone handles the render files for iray. -  but the concept is generally the same for all render engines / render farms - the networking software is generally known as a "network render node"

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RL would have to publish render nodes, which currently don't exist, as for rendering you would not need the full functionality, so they could be cheaper.

Iray can use multiple GPUs, but they would have to be on the same machine for iClone. I don't think the Iray server can be used.

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@Brianna - Are you talking about Iray, or the native iClone renderer?

It's easy to assume you're talking about Iray, but I've had some projects that render slowly in iClone too.  If you're talking about iClone itself, I think your "clumsy" approach would be the way to do it.  You'd need an iClone license for each computer.  You can install iClone on a second machine, but you're only supposed to run one installation at a time.  It would be nice to have a "render-only" license.  Then you could legally render on one workstation while editing on another.

I've thought about that before.  ;)

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