Actually, I want to do single images over a cluster of Windows PCs each of
which have 2 processors.

I currently use mpi for other applications.  Is there a version of pov that
works with mpi?  Even pvm would be ok.

Thanks.

Jim

"Francois Dispot" <woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote in message
news:3B33B4E4.B9F4F38C@club-internet.fr...
> Jim Kress wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have a version of pvm megapov that runs on windows?
>
> I still have no success story about windos here.
> IIRC there was a try a few months ago (maybe when you asked for the
> latest time ;-), using GNU tools, but it did not succeed. I don't know
> why it doesn't work. I often read the comp.parallel.pvm newsgroup, and
> usually people in trouble with nt and friends finish with something
> running, even with ssh.
>
> As suggested, what people at the late imp project did seemed to enable
> distributed rendering of anims, but pvm (and mpi) systems are AFAIK the
> only ones working with still images.
>
> It would be a good thing to make it work, but it might be interesting to
> find something working better under windos if somebody ever starts
> pvmpov 3.5. But it seems we have some time left to think about it.
> BTW, did anybody make a try with OsX? It is supposed to be based on BSD,
> so chances to make it work should be higher...
> --

>       __  __ __  __  _
> |  | /  \  /  / |_  /  |/
> \/\/ \__/ /_ /_ |__ \_ |\

Post a reply to this message