Hi everyone,

I've my dual celeron machine humming nicely for just over a week now
and have gotten to testing povray a little.
Much to my suprise povray does not support multithreading, in other
words it is no able to take advantage of the 2 cpu I have.

Are there ways for making povray work in smp (under Linux or Beos,
whatever) or is it just not possible.


Regards,

Wim



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Wim Rosseel wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've my dual celeron machine humming nicely for just over a week now
> and have gotten to testing povray a little.
> Much to my suprise povray does not support multithreading, in other
> words it is no able to take advantage of the 2 cpu I have.
> 
> Are there ways for making povray work in smp (under Linux or Beos,
> whatever) or is it just not possible.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wim
> 

Hi Wim!

One possible solution is PVMPOV. Have a look at 

http://www.luga.de/~flierl/pvmpov/

Marc

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Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> Wim Rosseel wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've my dual celeron machine humming nicely for just over a week now
> > and have gotten to testing povray a little.
> > Much to my suprise povray does not support multithreading, in other
> > words it is no able to take advantage of the 2 cpu I have.
> >
> > Are there ways for making povray work in smp (under Linux or Beos,
> > whatever) or is it just not possible.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Wim
> >
> 
> Hi Wim!
> 
> One possible solution is PVMPOV. Have a look at
> 
> http://www.luga.de/~flierl/pvmpov/
> 
> Marc
> 
> --
> Marc Schimmler

Thanx,

Looks very interesting.

Regards,

Wim

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Wim Rosseel <Wim### [at] esatkuleuvenacbe> wrote:
: Much to my suprise povray does not support multithreading

  A simple fact that nobody seems to know. This should be added to the VFAQ.

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main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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That's what I said about one year ago, I just want to point out! ;-)

Marc 

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Marc Schimmler <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:

: That's what I said about one year ago, I just want to point out! ;-)



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main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Marc Schimmler <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:
> 
> : That's what I said about one year ago, I just want to point out! ;-)
> 


See new message in povray.windows. John answered this for the VFAQ a couple
of months ago but you must have missed it.

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