A couple of friends and I have decided to write some render farm
software for POV-Ray for our senior design project. Our current design
specs are to process animation only. The software is a proposed
client/server application. The server will initially designed to run
under linux and the client to run under Windows 95/98/NT.

Basically it should work like this. Clients connect to the server via
TCP/IP. A client sends the server the a POV src/ini files. The server
then tells each client to render a frame. This continues until all
frames are done. All frames are then uploaded to the server where they
can be downloaded. There are a lot of design guts we need to work out
before we start, but that should be how it is going to work.

I would appreciate all comments on this project. Any functionality that
anyone would like added, security concerns with the uploading of files,
etc. I have begun prototyping the client and I will post that at a later
date. I do not believe that we will implement PVM or PVM style stuff
because of time constraints. Sorry

I do have some questions about the GUI-Ext. I believe that we will
implement GUI-Ext in this application. If anyone has any insight on
GUI-Ext, documentation on the functions, or anything that may be
helpfully, I would appreciate it if they would share them with me. I
have read all the post to this news server about GUI-Ext already,
anything else would be cool.  I also think it would be great if the
Render Farm could set the render priority of POV-Ray. How do I contact
the POV-Ray team about possibly letting us do this?

ryan

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In article <36087367.E608156B@dorm40.sdsmt.edu> , Ryan Hagelstrom
<rya### [at] dorm40sdsmtedu>  wrote:
>How do I contact the POV-Ray team 
>about possibly letting us do this?

Read the documentation (the FULL, slightly revised LEGAL DOCS are in there as well)!
There you will find a section for contacting the authors, contact the POV-Ray team
coordinator:

Chris Young, 767### [at] compuservecom


Thorsten

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Check out our web site at http://www.crak.com

We are running pvmpov and it is incredibly fast.

PVM is fairly easy to install and use.  I would definately look into it
if I were you.

JK


Ryan Hagelstrom wrote:
> 
> A couple of friends and I have decided to write some render farm
> software for POV-Ray for our senior design project. Our current design
> specs are to process animation only. The software is a proposed
> client/server application. The server will initially designed to run
> under linux and the client to run under Windows 95/98/NT.
> 
> Basically it should work like this. Clients connect to the server via
> TCP/IP. A client sends the server the a POV src/ini files. The server
> then tells each client to render a frame. This continues until all
> frames are done. All frames are then uploaded to the server where they
> can be downloaded. There are a lot of design guts we need to work out
> before we start, but that should be how it is going to work.
> 
> I would appreciate all comments on this project. Any functionality that
> anyone would like added, security concerns with the uploading of files,
> etc. I have begun prototyping the client and I will post that at a later
> date. I do not believe that we will implement PVM or PVM style stuff
> because of time constraints. Sorry
> 
> I do have some questions about the GUI-Ext. I believe that we will
> implement GUI-Ext in this application. If anyone has any insight on
> GUI-Ext, documentation on the functions, or anything that may be
> helpfully, I would appreciate it if they would share them with me. I
> have read all the post to this news server about GUI-Ext already,
> anything else would be cool.  I also think it would be great if the
> Render Farm could set the render priority of POV-Ray. How do I contact
> the POV-Ray team about possibly letting us do this?
> 
> ryan

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