carpatic nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-05-27 10:35:
> I want to achieve the following: I have a Flash application for doing online
> some design/modeling, and I want to render the resulting scene with povray
> (I'm taking the xml output from Flash, generate a pov file through a python
> script and call megapov to render the scene), then I load the outputed
> image in the browser.
> 
> My question is the following: which is the hardware recomandation for the
> machine that is doing the randering, in order to ensure a good raport on
> speed/quality ? Let's consider the example of 10 symultaneous randerings
> for 800x600 px, top quality, fairly simple objects (mostly boxes) and
> simple textures.
> As it runs over the web and the user expects rapid results on his screen,
> efficient timing is the most important factor to be achieved.
> The hardware requirements are for a dedicated server, no clustering, no LAN
> randering distribution.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
All the renreding is done by the CPU.
1: A fast CPU. Several CPUs (10 in your example) will enable to generate several
images in parallel.
2: A good amount of RAM to prevent going to the swap file.
What have NO effect: the video card

Alain

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