Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> 
> Mark Gordon wrote:
> >
> > I said:
> 
> > There's apparently an unofficial PVMPOV based on POV-Ray 3.1e at
> > http://www.luga.de/~flierl/pvmpov/
> 
> [...]
> 
> > PVMPOV in particular has been
> > used to showcase Beowulf clusters.  See
> > http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99039.ecsuperlinux.htm
> > to see what IBM has done with PVMPOV.
> 
> I know about that, because we built a Beowulf-cluster at school and
> tried PVMPOV :)   But that box is there, and here I've got SMP which I
> want to utilize.
> 
> But I'll check around PVMPOV once again and see if I can hack around
> with it :)

I run PVMPOV on my SMP-box at home, and get quite a good speedup, I
haven't checked how large... I just spec. that I want PVMPOV to use >= 2
processes and it utilize my box 100%, so you shouldn't have any problems
with it.

/Peter Toneby

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