This page provides a glossary of terms used with V-Ray.
Dongle – An encrypted physical hardware lock, very similar to a USB flash drive which contains the product licenses.
WIBU-KEY drivers – Drivers for the dongle.
Render Node – A machine that is doing the actual rendering.
Distributed Rendering – Dividing frames to buckets and rendering them on different render nodes by using V-Ray DR spawner, V-Ray Standalone, or a V-Ray RT render server.
Network Rendering – Rendering whole frames on each render node, for example, by submitting jobs to job managers like Backburner.
V-Ray DR spawner – A V-Ray tool used to start V-Ray Standalone in server mode for Distributed Rendering.
V-Ray SDK – A V-Ray Software Development Kit used for creation of custom materials and geometry.