Hi.

Is there anyone here working on getting POVRay available as a BOINC project?

BOINC : Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is available at
http://boinc.berkeley.edu.

BOINC basically allows multiple projects to run across thousands of
computers and all the results correlated at a single point. Distributed
processing basically.

There is a set of projects already available for BOINC. Seti, Climate
Prediction, etc.

The old SETI@Home program has become a BOINC project.

But, other projects can be developed.

With the thousands of unused CPU cycles available, some of the MASSIVE
rendering projects could be completed a LOT quicker by sharing the load
around.

I am a programmer, but have not worked in C for a LONG time, but I am sure
that converting POVRay to a BOINC project would be an very interesting
project.

Especially as some of the animation rendering can take months to achieve at
high resolutions.

Regards,

Richard Quadling.

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