"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in message
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> Some news from Germany:
>
> - IBM Germany will be rendering some POV-Ray images at the next CeBIT
trade
> show in Hannover (18-24 March), for the demonstration of the new IBM JS20
> BladeServers. The images are the ones with the complete scene code here
> http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/sources12.htm and
> http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/sources13.htm. I hope that the
> machine is really fast though, otherwise the assistance is going to fall
> asleep...
>
> - Informatik Spektrum, a German computer science magazine (Springer
group),
> is showing a POV-Ray image on the cover of its February issue
> (http://www.oyonale.com/ldc/english/persistence.htm) and dedicates a page
to
> it.
>
> G.
>

Wow, neat. Are they going to give you one of these bladeservers as a token
of their gratitude? ;)

as always, amazed by your images.

ross

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> What version of POV will they run?  Those seem to be 64 bit PowerPC CPUs
> so i assume they will run Linux.  Will the render be done on a single
> machine or on several ones in parallel?  A dozen of those machines
> connected via gigabit network would be quite useful for POV-Ray renders...

To be frank, I didn't ask... I hope that a German Pover will be able to have
a look though.

> I wonder when their 'February issue' will be available, apparently it is
not yet:
> http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00287/index.htm

I received the magazine last month, so the website is probably outdated...

G.

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> I think they want to use these images just to show how fast they are.
> How on earth anyone can judge that I do not know, unless they have
> another machine that is not as fast. Otherwise it is a bit like
> benchmarking with nothing to compare it to.

I guess it's only a live demo. They want pretty pictures to render for the
show. I worked with Intel and other companies on similar requests before.

> you are realy making some impact outside the cozy confines of our
> POV world. That is great.

Lots of people do in fact, and in a much more significant way. Professional
uses for POV-Ray abound, particularly in architecture and scientific
visualisation. I know of buildings, sculptures and scientific research that
were/are done using POV-Ray among other computer tools.

G.


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Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> I received the magazine last month, so the website is probably outdated...
> 

The problem is i think our library only has a subscription for the 
electronic version and does not get the printed one any more.


Christoph

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> - IBM Germany will be rendering some POV-Ray images at the next CeBIT
trade
> show in Hannover (18-24 March), for the demonstration of the new IBM JS20
> BladeServers. The images are the ones with the complete scene code here
> http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/sources12.htm and
> http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/sources13.htm. I hope that the
> machine is really fast though, otherwise the assistance is going to fall
> asleep...

Oh, so you too? IBM asked me for "Iced Land" as well. I've asked some
questions and it looks like their Bladeservers are upgradeable on various
issues. So there'll be one Bladeserver rendering one image, another
Bladeserver rendering the same image, but since one of them is upgraded, it
should render faster, and they want to demonstrate that.

I'm not going though, got other tasks at hand and CeBIT is a little too far
to jump in just to see some POV-Images... The father of my girlfriend might
be going, but I don't know if he'll be able to go to IBM: he's there for own
purposes.

I was kinda happy that IBM wanted the image, along with a few other
publications this makes for a good job and accomplishment history. :-)

Regards,
Tim
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In article <c39jrs$4on$1@chho.imagico.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> BTW anyone going to the CeBIT this year?

Me.  Will be there Monday.  Our department at Fraunhofer (institute FIT
(former GMD), project Arthur, will be in the inner ring of the Fraunhofer
exhibit) will exhibit there, so I have reason to visit CeBIT for free :-)

    Thorsten

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In article <4058a382@news.povray.org> , "Gilles Tran" 
<gitran_nospam_@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> To be frank, I didn't ask... I hope that a German Pover will be able to have
> a look though.

I would like to know where exactly they exhibit.  Usually IBMs exhibit is
rather huge and in multiple locations.  So if anybody goes there before
Monday, I would like to know where the JS20 exhibit is exactly.

    Thorsten

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> I would like to know where exactly they exhibit.  Usually IBMs exhibit is
> rather huge and in multiple locations.  So if anybody goes there before
> Monday, I would like to know where the JS20 exhibit is exactly.

IBM Booth Hall 1 / 5D2 / Demopoint 63 / "Technology Expertise"

Tell us about it after you've been there! :-)

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andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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>
> I think they want to use these images just to show how fast they are.
> How on earth anyone can judge that I do not know, unless they have
> another machine that is not as fast. Otherwise it is a bit like
> benchmarking with nothing to compare it to.
>

Yes, my "Mystery Lights" is one of the images they are using.  I was totally
jazzed when they contacted me, my first POV gig!  I asked a few questions,
and in return I got a picture of the demo they are running, I'll post it to
p.b.i.

Basically though, its a grid showing several thumbnailed images.  The user
selects an image, then selects to render it either on 2 JS20s or 40 JS20s
running in parallel.  They compare the render speed.   (I'm assuming that 40
JS20s in parallel should give a pretty significant performance boost...)
Nice looking display!

Congrats to all the POVers who have images in the demo, and thanks to the
POV team for such a great tool!

RG

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In article <4058c2d0$1@news.povray.org> , "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@)
nolights.de> wrote:

> IBM Booth Hall 1 / 5D2 / Demopoint 63 / "Technology Expertise"

Thanks!

> Tell us about it after you've been there! :-)

I will.

    Thorsten

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