Culley nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/16 11:26:
> Howdy folks, I'm relatively new here, thus the post in the newb list.
> 
> I'm generally a hardware guy along with being a sysadmin, but my wife is a
> drafter  and we've been thinking of starting up a side business. While she
> uses AutoCAD at work, we've been getting in to Chief Architect (CA) for
> much more detailed home remodeling 3d renders. While this can be done in CA
> it takes most of a day for a good sized resolution and the lighting isn't
> great. Most of the folks on CA's forums seem to recommend POV-Ray as the
> best 3rd part rendering software (outside of mucho $$$).
> 
> Now here's where I come in.
> 
> I've managed to scavenge up 10 P4's all roughly 2.4-3.2ghz and I've been
> playing with clustering. It works, I can do it, now I need a way to use the
> power.
> 
> Can anyone point me in a direction that has some info about clustering
> POV-Ray? I found http://pvmpov.sourceforge.net and
> http://www.instant-grid.org/. Anything else out there I should be looking
> at? Also, is there anyone who has done this on a small scale (under 20
> systems) with recommendations?
> 
> On the flip side, any recommendations for a much more large scale cluster?
> How well does it scale with huge numbers of varying processors? This is
> where it gets fun, a friend of mine has a warehouse of nearly 1000 PCs, a
> few AIX, and a pile of older HP servers that he has managed to scavenge up
> to build a wannabe super computer with. Depending on the scalability of
> POV-Ray with multiple systems I could probably snag time on it
> occasionally.
> 
> 
Take a look at MLPOV. It's designed FOR clustering, over a LAN or the Web.

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Alain
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