Dennis Miller wrote:
> Hi, How well will this work for animations across, say 150 computers?

The larger grid I have ever used until today includes 8 nodes: 3xDual 
Athlon SMP and 2xPC. It is something very small compared to one with 150 
nodes so the true answer is: I don't know :-)

Anyway, I don't see why it shouldn't work. The performances of a so 
large grid will be highly related to the amount of data (.pov files, 
etc.) JCGrid needs to transfer between the server and the nodes for the 
rendering.

JCGrid uses a centralized model (1 server, many workers) and this model 
can not scale up infinitely. However the limit can be very high for a 
time consuming task like rendering.

In a grid with 150 nodes, if the rendering of a single image fragment 
requires 3 minutes, the server will have to handle something like 1 or 2 
requests for seconds (a low load for a good workstation). More time 
requires the rendering of the single image fragment and less load the 
server has to handle.

I would really like to run a test on a 150 nodes grid.

David Bucciarelli
Pisa
Italy

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