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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> 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.

Yes.


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wrong newsgroup (no image) ...
in any case ... take them up on it and make sure the iron is connected to
the internet, make sure we can upload source files and they get rendered
there automaticly

Wolfgang

"D.J. Brown" <ext### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> 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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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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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.

Nothing 'bout PvmPov ?....

:)
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:08:05 -0700, Wolfgang Manousek wrote:
>wrong newsgroup (no image) ...
>in any case ... take them up on it and make sure the iron is connected to
>the internet, make sure we can upload source files and they get rendered
>there automaticly
>

Make sure it's got MegaPov installed aswell. 

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"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.

Could You make the benchmark

http://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.htm

and report the result here?

My notebook is at 70 seconds


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Last I saw PVMPov was not updated to 3.1g.  Also, the conversion of megapov
to a 'sortof' pvmpov was still in the early beta stages.

Jim

"Freddy D." <Fde### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Nothing 'bout PvmPov ?....
>
> :)
> --
> FD aka Freddy D. aka Prof D.
> Pro### [at] wanadoofr
> http://profd.est-ici.org

>

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