Hi all..

I've spend some time porting 3.5c and the MPI patch for windows platform
using MinGW wich means it runs without any special runtimes on an win32
platform,
and now i have managed to do distributed rendering using MPI on 8 Windows
2000 servers with good performance.

Very soon i will post a link to a page with a beginning tutorial and the
binaries.

See my entry at povbench..

http://haveland.com/povbench/showsubmission.php?bm=benchmark&id=439


Cheers..

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dbug.at.no-spam.org wrote:
> Hi all..
> 
> I've spend some time porting 3.5c and the MPI patch for windows platform
> using MinGW wich means it runs without any special runtimes on an win32
> platform,

I hope you are aware that POV-Ray 3.5 is nearly 3 years old and POV-Ray 
3.6.1 has been around for a long time and compiles with MinGW without 
any modifications.

Christoph

-- 
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/ (Last updated 24 Jul. 2005)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> dbug.at.no-spam.org wrote:
> > Hi all..
> >
> > I've spend some time porting 3.5c and the MPI patch for windows platform
> > using MinGW wich means it runs without any special runtimes on an win32
> > platform,
>
> I hope you are aware that POV-Ray 3.5 is nearly 3 years old and POV-Ray
> 3.6.1 has been around for a long time and compiles with MinGW without
> any modifications.
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/ (Last updated 24 Jul. 2005)
> MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

Ofcourse, :) i run 3.6.1 standalone and that compiles without any problems
under mingw, but the MPI patch was made for 3.5c source and i have no
programming experince with MPI neither with povray.
There are a lot of source changes in the code parts where the MPI is used
and i tried to get it working on the 3.6.1 with constant functionality
failures (code compiles and i got an binary that fails when starting with
MPI)...

If times is given me i will look deeper to get the MPI working for the 3.6.1
source but for now i'm pleased with the 3.5c binary.

/Hernik A.

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"dbug.at.no-spam.org" <dbug.at.no-spam.org> wrote:
> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> > dbug.at.no-spam.org wrote:
> > > Hi all..
> > >
> > > I've spend some time porting 3.5c and the MPI patch for windows platform
> > > using MinGW wich means it runs without any special runtimes on an win32
> > > platform,
> >
> > I hope you are aware that POV-Ray 3.5 is nearly 3 years old and POV-Ray
> > 3.6.1 has been around for a long time and compiles with MinGW without
> > any modifications.
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> > --
> > POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
> > http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/ (Last updated 24 Jul. 2005)
> > MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/
>
> Ofcourse, :) i run 3.6.1 standalone and that compiles without any problems
> under mingw, but the MPI patch was made for 3.5c source and i have no
> programming experince with MPI neither with povray.
> There are a lot of source changes in the code parts where the MPI is used
> and i tried to get it working on the 3.6.1 with constant functionality
> failures (code compiles and i got an binary that fails when starting with
> MPI)...
>
> If times is given me i will look deeper to get the MPI working for the 3.6.1
> source but for now i'm pleased with the 3.5c binary.
>
> /Hernik A.

Hello Hernik:

How is everythig.


already has its infrastructure set. MPI for POVRAY will work for me like a
charm.

The latest version I found of MPI for POVRAY was meant for version 3.1g.

Where can I find a newer one, to start testing?


develop a MPI patch for the latest version of POVRAY.

Feel free to contact me at ein### [at] cecalculave

Thanks.

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