There's a message on the news group "povray.windows" from Chris Jeppensen
(18.05.98):


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> Anyone interested in this?
> I'm in the process of writing a distributed render system that works with
> Pov. This uses several computers to do one rendering task.
> It has one server, sort of a master control program. It also has several
> clients, one for each computer.
> Right now it has two modes: Round robin and Animate.
> Round robin takes all the .POV files in a directory and hands them out to
> the clients. The clients then return all the bitmaps to one directory on
the
> server. This could be useful for rendering all the samples, for example.
> Animate splits up the task of doing an animation among several computers.
It
> can do weighting, sendimg more work to the faster computers.
> I imagine it also could be made to split up a large single image, using
+S
> and +E, but I havent needed to do that yet.
> It is made in VB5.0. This means it needs a fairly large run-time dll.
(1.5
> Megs. But who cares if your doing 100 megs of animations?)
> It runs right now on my home network using 2 WinNT 4.0 computers and 1
Win95
> Computer.
> If I see enough interest, I'll post it somewhere.
> Thanks,
> Chris Jeppesen
> http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/3392


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> I was told awhile back that it was possible to split rendering across
> multiple pc's on a network using povray.  Does anybody know if this is
> true?  If it is, what platform is it possible on and what do I need to
> download to do it?  Thanks
> 
>

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