>> Oooh... I'd LURVE to see that thing run 3.7 :D
> 
> I'd have to wonder what kind of overhead you'd incur, though.
> 
> In order to make it worthwhile, you would need something that was 
> compute intensive, but light on the memory subsystem.  This might be a 
> problem with threads writing their results to the main viewport.  The 
> scene file itself, of course, could be held in read-only shared memory.
> 
> I wonder, in the 3.7 source, does each thread have it's own framebuffer 
> that gets reported back all at once, or do they report each pixel to the 
> master framebuffer as they get processed?  From the way the tiles get 
> displayed, I would assume the former.

I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* that Cray isn't even shared-memory. As 
in, it behaves like several seperate servers in the same box, and you'd 
need some kind of network protocol to communicate between the various 
units. So running POV-Ray on it would be like running POV-Ray on a 
cluster of networked PCs. You'd need the PVM mod or something.

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