Patrick Magee wrote:

> 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.

Actually it was PCWEEK that had the article. It can be found at:

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0608/08linux.html

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