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From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 17 Nov 2011 15:14:41
Message: <4ec56b31@news.povray.org>

> I am working on a paper on resilient computing on example of POV-Ray ray tracer
> rendering. We chose POV-Ray because it is popular on grid platforms of CERN
> type.

This sounds like an interesting system.

> However, for ever greater resilience, an option to restart long POV-Ray job is
> required. We are capable of restarting POV-Ray process in case of power failure
> or other outage that preserved hard disk, yet we are not able to dive into
> POV-Ray code and make modifications. IMHO that requires deep knowledge of the
> code.

I'm not quite sure if this was intended as a question. Given the nature
of your project I assume you already know that POV-Ray has a -C option
to resume an aborted render, just like your smart client, but it
wasn't quite clear from your post.

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