Invisible wrote:
> ...unless you run a Windows instance. ;-)

Then you use the Windows equivalent, which is a service.

> 1. No sane person is going to pay money to run POV-Ray on Amazon when 
> they could just run it locally on their own PC for free.

Well, no, you have to do more than have just POV-Ray there. For example, you 
could have a mechanism where the person sets up the configuration on their 
own computer, clicks a button that launches 10 Amazon instances and 
distributes frames to them and collects the results, then composes them into 
a video when you're done, after shutting down the instances that were rendering.

> What you'd *actually* want is a button in POV-Ray that says "submit to 
> server" and it grabs all the files, INI files, etc., zips them into a 
> big bundle, uploads it, adds it to the server render queue, and emails 
> you the result when it's finished or something.

Right.

> As far as I can tell, it's not possible to do this. Or at least, it's 
> not possible to use DevPay to do this. You'd have to have an instance 
> running constantly, and you'd have to pay for it whether there's work to 
> do or not.

I don't understand why you'd say that. It works OK for me. I just never got 
around to doing the button that launches the instance, altho having it read 
the configuration and go from there works fine.


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