Darren New escreveu:
> You're familiar with Amazon's ECC, their "elastic compute cloud"? You 
> can rent their machines by the hour, fairly cheaply. (Like, $72/month 
> for a one CPU machine.)
> 
> I wrote code that lets you put together a bunch of "jobs" to run in a 
> local directory (which could be shell scripts that invoke POV-Ray), and 
> a GUI that will push it up to Amazon's S3. You can run the "backend" 
> scripts wherever you want, but it was intended you run them on Amazon's 
> compute cloud. (For testing, I just use multiple processes/machines at 
> home.) The back ends will pick up jobs that haven't been run, run them, 
> and put the results back out in S3 for you. When it's done, all the 
> machines shut down, and you have your renders.
> 
> I finished the S3 code, and the code that actually does the file 
> manipulations and such, but I never wrote the code that lets you start 
> it up automatically on a rented computer. You'd have to start the 
> processes yourself, log in, and manually fire off the "go look for jobs 
> to run" script. For one thing, while I was working on it, Amazon added a 
> vital capability, which was the ability to pass something to the machine 
> you just fired up without intervention, so you could launch the machine 
> and as you launch it provide the login and location information it needs 
> to find the jobs.
> 
> I've been testing it with a few of the scripts from the short-code 
> contest from a while back.
> 
> If you want to do an animation, tho, you have to precalculate the stuff. 
> It's going to parallelize everything, so it doesn't really help if 
> you're doing something like simulation in POV-Ray script. Myself, I 
> write code that outputs POV-Ray source, so that doesn't bother me.

Interesting.

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