POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.utilities: Rendering across multiple machines: Re: Rendering across multiple machines

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From: Patrick Magee
Date: 23 Sep 1998 18:16:32
Message: <36096525.1FAEB187@fltdyn.com>

Alan McFarlane wrote:

> Anyone got any idea as to how to write some code to allow pov to render
> across two machines using a serial link?

  Red Hat Extreme Linux (aka Beowulf) will allow this. It is designed to
"parallel" individual machines. I believe it was InfoWorld that tested
Extreme Linux by using a special compile of POV-Ray and a network of
several machines. It was a TCP/IP network, not serial, but the numbers were
impressive. The price for Extreme Linux? $30 or so. Network cards, $0(My
employer was converting to 100baseT and did not want to fool with the old
cards). Cable to connect two machines, $9. I am in the process of setting
up my own array of Linux machines to help with  my rendering times.

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