Oops. Let me apologize for the name and e-mail used in the Author and
e-mail fields of my previous post. I use this same client for posting
to the general Usenet as well, and I'm not as keen to have my real
information in those fields when I'm out there. I'm sorry if I
offended anyone.

Scott Holland

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:06:04 -0500, A Large Negro <non### [at] yobidness>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I hope I've posted this in the right group. My name is Scott Holland.
>I am currently a computer science graduate student at Appalachian
>State University in Boone, NC.  I would like to use POVRay as a part
>of my thesis project.
>
>In particular I would like to apply something called GPGPU to POVRay.
>GPGPU stands for General Purpose processing on a GPU. More information
>on GPGPU can be found here:  http://www.gpgpu.org 
>
>In short, I would like to see if it is feasible to use the latest
>graphics cards to accellerate POVRay. My goal would be to modify the
>SMP code of POVRay to identify each GPU in the system as just another
>CPU to split the workload with. In the past, ray tracers have been
>successfully written that use the GPU. However, they have been what I
>would term bare bones ray tracers. They have not supported things like
>refraction or radiosity. My thesis would test if it is possible to do
>the same with a full-featured ray tracer.
>
>In order to do this, I would need the source code for version 3.7.
>Since 3.6 does not support multiprocessor systems. What would be
>required of me to get the 3.7 source code? Thank you.
>
>Scott Holland
>sah### [at] csappstateedu

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