"Henrique" <hen### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Quick solution:
> Install MINGW, which will give you a linux shell under windows.
> ./configure
> make
> and TADA - you have a statically compiled POVRAY.EXE somewhere in your disk.
> Insteresting that I did just exactly what you want.  I made the whole
> fractal.pov video (+1000 frames) using Condor.
>
> Henrique Bucher
>
>
> "Crysus" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.4166a1cdfbcfaaae1bc421ef0@news.povray.org...
> > Hello!
> >
> > I need a standalone povray version for Windows without an installer (and
> > registry entries). All what i need is just the renderer, no GUI etc. Is
> > there something like that available?
> >
> > I need that for following purpose:
> > We set up a High Throughput Computing pool with lots of machines in it.
> > Now
> > i can submit the server lots of Jobs (An executable with commands,
> > additional files etc.) and the server looks for machines in that pool that
> > match best the requirements of the job and let that machine execute and
> > send back the results.
> >
> > So.. Povray on Linux-machines works properly with that, i send a big
> > renderjob (movie) and the server gives pieces of that job to
> > linux-machines
> > which execute that job. The server has to send the povray-executable and
> > the ini-file(s) to each execute machine - works fine, especially you have
> > big renderjobs.
> >
> > The problem is povray on Windows machines. I haven't found any solution,
> > how
> > i can render something with povray without having installed povray (3.6).
> > The registry entries seem to be important. But I mustn't just add these
> > registry entries on the execute machines.
> >
> > Is there a povray version that can work without beeing installed. Only the
> > renering is required, the GUI etc. should not been started. Just start -
> > render - exit, without installation.
> >
> > Thanks for help
> >
> > Thomas Lisson
> >
> >
> >


and it borrows a lot from the EGEE European GRID.
EELA:
www.eu-eela.org
EGEE:
www.eu-egee.org/

Do you have any advice on how to run POVRAY on a grid system both for
animations and still renders(sectioning the scene)?

So far I have found an old mpi version of povray 3.5c right on these forums
but nothin related to the latest version.


Thank You in advance.

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