POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Druel if you like : Re: Druel if you like Server Time
20 Aug 2024 00:16:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Druel if you like  
From: Jim Kress
Date: 30 Sep 2000 00:20:44
Message: <39d56a1c@news.povray.org>
Nice computer.  However, POV doesn't support multithreading nor is their a
current version of PVpov that could be run in parallel.

At least you could run a few POV tasks 'simultaneously', all working on
different renders ... assuming their system isn't I/O limited.

Jim


"D.J. Brown" <ext### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:39d4fe8d@news.povray.org...
> I have a business partner that I'm working with to create a website. Their
> main imagery takes 14 hours to generate with POV-Ray. I relayed this to
them
> when they asked  for some minor changes (I told them to make sure that was
> all they wanted). This is a short excerpt from their response:
>
> > Randy and I have access to a Convex Exemplar supercomputer with 6
> processors and 2 GB of ram. Think that will render faster? THis HP-UX
> parallel processor is located in our building.
>
> Think I should take them up on their offer? They also said I could use it
> for any projects I wanted because it's just sitting around doing nothing.
>
>


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