Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> > I am working on a paper on resilient computing on example of POV-Ray ray tracer
> > rendering. We chose POV-Ray because it is popular on grid platforms of CERN
> > type.
>
> This sounds like an interesting system.
>
> > However, for ever greater resilience, an option to restart long POV-Ray job is
> > required. We are capable of restarting POV-Ray process in case of power failure
> > or other outage that preserved hard disk, yet we are not able to dive into
> > POV-Ray code and make modifications. IMHO that requires deep knowledge of the
> > code.
>
> I'm not quite sure if this was intended as a question. Given the nature
> of your project I assume you already know that POV-Ray has a -C option
> to resume an aborted render, just like your smart client, but it
> wasn't quite clear from your post.

Dear Christian,

Thank you for your interest in the system. To be honest, I wasn't aware of +/-C
options. Thank you for this pointer.

Still, it will require a great deal of work to revamp smart client grc-client to
continue rendering where it left off.

This project is GPL'ed open source so we might publish code once we clean it up
and make it more tidy. Right now I am not satisfied, we have a lot of dead code
that no longer serves purpose and belongs in the archives, not in main source
tree.

Thank you very much for this information.

iJC
MT

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