POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Now *that* would run POV-Ray : Re: Now *that* would run POV-Ray Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:19:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Now *that* would run POV-Ray  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 4 Oct 2009 11:19:21
Message: <4ac8bcf9$1@news.povray.org>
>> 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.
> 
>   I think there's some support in linux to make a cluster look like a
> bunch of local processors.

If there isn't, Debian have a hacked PVM version of POV-Ray...

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