Tom Galvin wrote:
> Ian <pov### [at] nebulouscorecom> wrote in
> news:Xns### [at] 204213191226: 
> 

Nice projects. I really should delve into them more. I also have 
recently been thinking about this, and I thought that maybe it could be 
interesting also to look into clustering techniques like Mosix and 
OpenMosix. It would be nice if a frame could be divided. Yes, I am aware 
of several problems related to this (radiosity, etc.), but I thought 
that for instance current projects with Mosix like netram would be helpful.

I don't know how it could apply to PoV-ray (haven't really read the 
sources yet), but maybe someone knows more about this and can say 
something about it...

Just a thought.

-Nathan

> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>This is my first post here. I have been playing with the idea of doing
>>a render farm. 
> 
> 
> There are several existing projects that I know of out there.  A summary 
> of them is at the end of this reply.  I would suggest starting simple. Do 
> it frame by frame.  Anything else gets really complicated, really buggy, 
> really fast.  Based on the work I have done for the Internet Movie 
> Project I have boiled the process down to this:
> 
> The server just needs to do three things.
> 
>     1) Issue frames
>     3) Track frames( Preferably in a database)
>     2) Receive frames
> 
> The client just needs to do three things
>     1) Get a frame
>     2) Render a frame
>     3) Return a frame
> 
> Our design goals are:
> 
>     * Cross platform client/server
>     * http communication 
>     * web based management
> 
> Obviously the devil is in the details.  Both Gimli and IMP have made the 
> source available if you want to see what has been done.  The server 
> portion of IMPFarm is still two ASP pages.  They are being converted to 
> perl.  If you want to join the IMPFarm project just sign up. You can see 
> the work we have done so far if you look at
> 
>    http://test.imp.org/impfarm/
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> POV-Ray RenderFarms
> =======================================
> IMPFarm
>     Language=Perl
>     Renderer=POV-Ray
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/impfarm/
> 
> Povray Render Server(Gimli already replied to this thread)
>      Language=Perl
>      Renderer=POV-Ray
>      http://www.psico.ch/index.php?page=prs
> 
> The PVM patch for POV-Ray
>      Language = C++
>      Renderer = POV-Ray
>      http://pvmpov.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Non POV-Ray projects
> =======================================
> BORG - BORG Open Rendering GUI
>      Language = Java
>      Renderer = Renderman compliant
>      http://www.project-borg.org/home/index.html
> 
> RenderFarm.NET
>      Language = XML
>      Renderer = Maya
>      http://www.renderfarm3d.com/
> 
> And these projects on source forge look dead:
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/renderfarm/
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/littlefarm/
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/barf/

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