Yep, I've got the SETI@home screen saver. If multi-machine rendering is as
seamless I want to do it. Of course for my sake it would also need to be
as easy to set up.


Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> 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
> news:37566D8B.A1F8DA0D@ida.utb.hb.se...
> > 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.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mikael Carneholm
> > Dep. of Computer Science

> >
> > http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch
> > E-mail: sa9### [at] idautbhbse
> >
> >

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