Thomas Willhalm wrote:
> 
> Nite_Hawk <nel### [at] mailminnehahapvtk12mnus> writes:
> 
> > Scott Hill wrote:
> > >
> > > Shane Chambers <sha### [at] wtconet> wrote in article
> > > <35BD8DCF.ABD9005A@wtco.net>...
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     Does POV-RAY (any version, any platform) have support for Multiple
> > > > Processors?
> > >
> > > IIRC, none of the official builds do, but there's an unofficial build that
> > > does, sorry don't recall what it's called, but I think it's for Linux
> > > platforms only.
> > >
> [...]
> >
> > This is called pvm-pov, which uses pvm to distribute the workload over
> > several computers on a network, which could also work using two clients
> > on one machine.  It works in linux, and someone a couple months ago
> > hinted at a NT port, though I have no idea if it ever happend..
> 
> Of course, it also works with other flavours of Unix. BTW, the link is:
> http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/PVMPOV.html
> In the list of POVBench Results (http://www.haveland.com/povbench/index.htm)
> the fastest renderings were done with PVMPOV.
> 
> Thomas
> 
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> Tschieses lavs ju

of  course, I should have unix, my mistake. :)

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