Distributed Rendering
Dunn Michael J
rendering usiing pov. I have access to four power pc's running system 7.5
and a few pc's running linux so solutions for either of these platfoms
would be great. Any pointers in the right direction appreciated.
Mike Dunn
Peter Mattis
A friend and I have recently written a shell script (unix) to do exactly
this. We're currently testing it to make sure it has no bugs. Give us a
few days and we'll release it.
This solution may work under linux, but it depends on how the network is
set up between them. It uses rsh/remsh to log in to the different computers.
BTW, the performance can be spectacular. There's a group of 20 hp 9000
workstations that we distribute to and images normally render in 3-4
minutes. I'm not talking simple images either. For example, the "not at
all real" scene included with the pov distribution took 3 minutes to
render in 800x600 resolution.
Peter Mattis
Christopher Cason
> I am looking for any information / software that enables distributed
> rendering usiing pov. I have access to four power pc's running system 7.5
> and a few pc's running linux so solutions for either of these platfoms
> would be great. Any pointers in the right direction appreciated.
there's a distributed processing patch for PVM (Unix) at
ftp.povray.org:/pub/povray/unofficial/patches. you'll need to get the PVM
source as well.
-- Chris Cason
Andreas Dilger
Dunn Michael J <dun...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>I am looking for any information / software that enables distributed
>rendering usiing pov. I have access to four power pc's running system 7.5
>and a few pc's running linux so solutions for either of these platfoms
>would be great. Any pointers in the right direction appreciated.
You need to get a patch called pvmpovray.tar.Z at ftp.povray.org in the
directory /pub/povray/unofficial/patches. You will also need to get a package
called PVM, which is available via ftp of WWW at netlib2.cs.utk.edu/pvm3
or you can just go to my home page (URL at end), which has links for all these.
I don't think that you will be able to use the Power Macs with this system,
since it will only run on multi-tasking machines.
Cheers, Andreas.
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