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Use all your Windows PC’s as one, to render POV-Ray at once and real easy (SMPOV)
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Mon, 11 Oct 2004 03:05:08 GMT
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Hello,
Over the past few months I have been working on making a mini-supercomputer with
several servers running Linux and PVM (parallel virtual machine) with MOSIX. All
for Rendering in POV-Ray.
After weeks of learning Linux and trying to figure out how to do programming I
just found this guys web site today.
It’s just for POV-Ray for windows. But all you do is make a shared folder on
your “server” and COPY these files to the network share. All Pov-Ray and LDRAW
programs need to be installed on all clients and server. Run the client and
server piece on the server. If you want you can choose not to run a render on
your server just the clients. That’s cool. Then run the client part from the
networked share. You’re done!
Basically it breaks the render into parts and gives each CPU a part. So POV-Ray
will run on BOTH CPU’s. Up to 4 CPU’s per PC. It gives each processor you make
available one process of POV-Ray each. If you just have a dual Processor PC you
can use this for just one pc. But render your file with both processors at once.
I’m still tweaking it, but it is faster. It seems every part has a long opening
time 1-2min and then still has to do the same parsing time as if it was the
whole picture. So for smaller files there is no time gained. The Linux solution
would still give me a quicker renders with the same equipment. But just a lot
more configuration, with the server and all the boot disks for the clients.
Here is the link,
http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm
Mike Gallagher
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=mikeslego
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