POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV on supercomputers? : Re: POV on supercomputers? Server Time
5 Aug 2024 10:18:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV on supercomputers?  
From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 6 Oct 2002 08:36:30
Message: <3da02e4e$1@news.povray.org>
Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:
> btw - my dream (impossible now, hmm well maybe Bill G can affort it;)
> - to have cluster of i.e 1024 x 100 Pentiums 2 GHz 2 GB ram connected
> with very fast ethernet, so each will rander just ~7 pixels per
> frame. Then it would be possible to play Quake 3 with real soft
> shadows, real glass, radiosity, media :))) maybe even a focal blur -
> in real time :)

And it generate enough heat to provide hot water on tap to the whole
street - perhaps a method of funding the running costs :)

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