Juergen Schmidt wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I want to do a demo for linux SMP-capabilities on a highend SMP-box with
> povray.
> 
> Therefor I have a couple of questions:
> 
> - does povray support multithreading, or do I still have to split the
> image into sepate processes.
> 
> - is there a decent frontend to split up the task for a SMP-box ?
> 
> - I read there is an unofficial port of 3.1a. Is it worth trying that
> instead of the official version, i.E. do I get any benefit on a
> SMP-machine? Does it compile/work with Linux 2.2?
> 
> - Does anybody know other programs to *visualize* SMP on Linux?
> 
> thanks for your time, juergen
> 
> PS: Please CC to my mail-address as this news-server is hard to reach
> sometimes.
> 
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I am still trying to put an answer together for the VFAQ because multi
processor related questions about povray appeared a lot in the last
time. 

Apparently there exist two ways to use PovRay in a UNIX client-server
environment. 

1. PVWPov (
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/pvmpov/index.html )
This work with the 3.0 version of povray.

2. distpov The URL of this one is down in the moment. I haven't got the
email of its author but the soul of our Newsgroup (Ken that's you!!!)
may provide to you.


If I'am right PVMPov has been used during the last WDR Computernacht on
the Linux Cluster to show its efficiency 

 http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1999/01/010/default.shtml :-)

One of the participants has been Thomas Wilhalm of the Uni Konstanz who
posts quite often in this groups!

I hope this has been of any help for you,


Marc
-- 
Marc Schimmler

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