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> Tell us a bit more. What kind of server, how it would work, etc.
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Well, so far, it is only an idea. The server is a quad-core Intel(tm) core i7
with 32GB ram. So, nothing super fancy but still decent I guess. I intend to add
a web frontend where you need to create an account. Once logged in you can
upload a zip archive with all your sources in it and you can specify which size
and other params to povray. There will be a queue of pending images to render.
So, the jobs will be picked one after the other (or maybe 2-4 in parallel) and
rendered. To render it, the zip is unpacked (in a sandbox with let's say 10GB
disk) and the normal povray will be run to render your scene. The server runs on
linux, so I can set limits for mem usage of povray. I will probably also set
time limits, so that your jobs gets aborted after 12 hours or so. Maybe put it
back in the queue and allow it to be resumed when it is again at the head of the
queue. Once the rendering is done, you will get an email and you can download
the resulting image. It is not really a cloud thingy as it is a single server
and so.. but nowadays everything that runs on a server is called cloud, so well
:o)

- Micha

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