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Has anyone thought about using Distributed.nets approach to distributing
the "movie" among thousands of computers already connected to the net?
http://distributed.net
http://www.netten.net/~raytant
Just an idea.....
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Yeah!
I want to have a farm of servers, each machine a linux one, with one
processor (pentium, K5, K6, 486, etc), 32MB and 10Base2 network card.
Maybe 16 machines. Every machine is working thru NFS, with a big buffer
on povray.
If I want to render a scene, I make each machine do just part of the
scene, telling povray to take from row n to m. If I want to render an
animation, each computer take a scene, renders it and continues with the
next in line. A simple locking mechanism can handle which is the latest
scene being rendered. Then when the fastest machine has ended
rendering, and are no more scenes to render, it starts assembling the
animation.
Maybe my idea is not as yours, but can be easily be implemented on the
web, so we got your idea. I still don't got the money to do this, ie.
having a farm of machines needs a little budget.
Ivan Kocher
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Raymond Tant wrote:
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> Has anyone thought about using Distributed.nets approach to distributing
> the "movie" among thousands of computers already connected to the net?
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> http://distributed.net
> http://www.netten.net/~raytant
>
> Just an idea.....
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Raymond Tant wrote in message <358### [at] netten net>...
>Has anyone thought about using Distributed.nets approach to distributing
>the "movie" among thousands of computers already connected to the net?
Yes, fellow bovine, I havbe thought of it. The problem is bandwidth.
A computer running bovine for one hour, clears one block, writes one bit,
is this the block or not. Well, maybe a little more, but not much.
A computer rendering runs for one hour, generates one frame, and writes
several megabytes. It would take almost as long to transmit that frame as
it did to render it. Now I have unlimited hours at my ISP, but a lot of
people don't.
Of course, compression will help, but it still a fundamentally different
problem. J Random User is a lot less likely to run a rendering client
that will need to be online all the time. We need dedicated people to run
this project.
For small ethernets, I am working on a windows rendering distributor,
Amalthea. I had it released for a while, but it wasn't ready, so I withdrew
it. I have a farm of about 3 computers, and it works about 1/3 of the time
for me. It still needs some fiddling.
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>http://distributed.net
>http://www.netten.net/~raytant
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>Just an idea.....
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Raymond Tant wrote:
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> Has anyone thought about using Distributed.nets approach to distributing
> the "movie" among thousands of computers already connected to the net?
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> http://distributed.net
> http://www.netten.net/~raytant
>
> Just an idea.....
debian linux 2.0 offers a package based on pvm (parallel virtual
machine) where you can do this.
Regards
Hans-Willi Raedt
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