POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Now *that* would run POV-Ray : Re: Now *that* would run POV-Ray Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:27:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Now *that* would run POV-Ray  
From: clipka
Date: 3 Oct 2009 18:38:45
Message: <4ac7d275$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Dual-/quad-core AMD Opterons and a runtime environment including SUSE 
>> Linux... I guess POV-Ray should even install "out of the box", with no 
>> need whatsoever to adapt the system-specific config files :-)
> 
>   I wonder if POV-Ray 3.7 has ever been tested with that many rendering
> threads, and whether it would cope.

I presume the machine is essentially a cluster, so not much luck there: 
You'll have a huge number of dual- or quad-core machines to crunch away 
at a single frame of an animation each, but that'll be about it. 
Unfortunately, although 3.7 is SMP-ready, it isn't "network-ready" yet.


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