I hate to butt in where I know nothing, but has anyone looked at the
SETI-at-home.com project?

A distributed processor kind of thing where a program downloads some info,
your computer grinds it up while you are not doing anything, and every now
and then it sends the results back to the main computer.

Search for Extra Tracing Engines-at-home.org anyone? Problem would come when
you were waiting for the three middle frames of your animation and some guy
with a 386 and a tendency to do long renders himself has your info....


Mikael Carneholm <sa9### [at] idautbhbse> wrote in message
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> Mike Weber wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if a server exists on the web that I can send it a .pov
> > file for it to render??
>
> Me and a fellow student was actually discussing to do such an application
as
> our examination project, where I would do the client part in Delphi (to
run
> on Windows PC:s) and he would do the server part in C (to run on unix
> machines). He chose to do some other stuff instead, so I ended up doing a
> combined server/client in Delphi. But only as a hobby project, which means
I
> haven't had that much time for it lately. It's working fine though, the
main
> thing that's still to be done is the ftp function (when a job is ready,
all
> images are uploaded to the server)
>
> The original idea was just as you described: with a special client you
would
> be able to connect to a server, request to have a scene rendered by it's
> clients, and if the server approved - the file with the scene would be
> distributed to the connected clients and rendered until all frames were
> done.
>
> The idea was also that when someone put a server online, it would inform a
> third part that it was existing. This part would then add that server to
the
> list of running servers and publish the list online. This way, you could
> check the "DistPOV" website, check if any servers were online, and connect
> to a server of your choice.
>
> This of course depends on that people connect their clients to the servers
> and set them to "servant-mode" (as compared to "request-mode").
>
> It's still an interesting idea, but it takes some spare time and energy to
> realize it.
>
> - Mikael.
>
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> Dep. of Computer Science

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