Hi folks,

based on PVMPOV, we have created a MPI patch for povray 3.5c It works 
quite well and has been tested on Linux (SuSE 7.3&8.0), Solaris 8.0 and 
Irix.
It works with the new automake/autoconf system of povray 3.5, so just 
unpack the archive to your povray directory and run './configure', 
'make' and 'make install', nothing new for you guys ;-)
It has statistics, options and other stuff, so try it out!!
Requirements are povray3.5c and LAM/MPI 6.5.x
What do you think about it??
If you like it, I hope it can be added to the tools section on the 
povray homepage...

Matthias

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Attachments:
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Matthias wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> based on PVMPOV, we have created a MPI patch for povray 3.5c It works
> quite well and has been tested on Linux (SuSE 7.3&8.0), Solaris 8.0 and
> Irix.
> It works with the new automake/autoconf system of povray 3.5, so just
> unpack the archive to your povray directory and run './configure',
> 'make' and 'make install', nothing new for you guys ;-)
> It has statistics, options and other stuff, so try it out!!
> Requirements are povray3.5c and LAM/MPI 6.5.x
> What do you think about it??
> If you like it, I hope it can be added to the tools section on the
> povray homepage...
> 
> Matthias

How well does this intergrate with radiosity, photons, and other nifty
features of v3.5c? I'm going to try the InformationRod.pov from the images
group to try this out on 4 machines. Should I expect artifacts in the
rendering vs using a single CPU?
---Christopher

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Matthias <mat### [at] webde> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> based on PVMPOV, we have created a MPI patch for povray 3.5c It works
> quite well and has been tested on Linux (SuSE 7.3&8.0), Solaris 8.0 and
> Irix.

> Requirements are povray3.5c and LAM/MPI 6.5.x
> What do you think about it??
I like it very much!
We use POVRay for rendering images to scientific publications, and need
sometimes to do very large images (think 600dpi). We have access to several
large (512 cpu size) installations. Both SMP machines and clusters. To get
the job done unfortunately we need povray 3.6.
Is there any chance you will port your patch to POVRay 3.6 ? I tried naively
to just dump parapov in the 3.6 source, and it didn't work. I would be
happy to help test - also large scale (up to 128 CPU) - runs if
needed/wanted.

Regards,

Troels

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Matthias <mat### [at] webde> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> based on PVMPOV, we have created a MPI patch for povray 3.5c It works
> quite well and has been tested on Linux (SuSE 7.3&8.0), Solaris 8.0 and
> Irix.
> It works with the new automake/autoconf system of povray 3.5, so just
> unpack the archive to your povray directory and run './configure',
> 'make' and 'make install', nothing new for you guys ;-)
> It has statistics, options and other stuff, so try it out!!
> Requirements are povray3.5c and LAM/MPI 6.5.x
> What do you think about it??
> If you like it, I hope it can be added to the tools section on the
> povray homepage...
>
> Matthias

For those who are interested in parallel versions of Povray - I found an
easy way to do this with any version of Povray. :) Read this article:

http://u.pereslavl.ru/~vadim/MCSharp/docs/povray/index.php


Best regards,
Vadim B. Guzev
http://u.pereslavl.ru/~vadim/MCSharp/

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Vadim wrote:
> For those who are interested in parallel versions of Povray - I found an
> easy way to do this with any version of Povray. :) Read this article:
> 
> http://u.pereslavl.ru/~vadim/MCSharp/docs/povray/index.php

... which happens to contain various incorrect statements about the 
development of POV-Ray.  In particular the lengthy paragraph about the 
"owner" and "developer" of POV-Ray is all wrong.  Persistence of Vision 
Raytracer Pty. Ltd. only holds the copyright in order to protect individual 
developers (against patent lawsuits, illegal use of POV-Ray, etc), it does 
not develop POV-Ray.  This is a same setup similar to what most open source 
projects are forced to use these days.  The paragraph also claims the 
official version is not developed by volunteers, which is plain wrong, too.


	Thorsten

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Vadim wrote:
> 
> For those who are interested in parallel versions of Povray - I found an
> easy way to do this with any version of Povray. :) Read this article:
> 
> http://u.pereslavl.ru/~vadim/MCSharp/docs/povray/index.php

Which is just yet another 
split-render-into-tiles-and-render-with-multiple-instances-of-POV-Ray 
tool in someone's favourite pet language.

Various tools already exist for this:

http://www.imp.org/impfarm/default.asp
http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm
http://www.imagico.de/povany/index.html

which offer more functionality (esp. distributing a render across 
different computers).

Christoph

-- 
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 31 Oct. 2005)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

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Matthias <mat### [at] webde> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> based on PVMPOV, we have created a MPI patch for povray 3.5c It works
> quite well and has been tested on Linux (SuSE 7.3&8.0), Solaris 8.0 and
> Irix.
> It works with the new automake/autoconf system of povray 3.5, so just
> unpack the archive to your povray directory and run './configure',
> 'make' and 'make install', nothing new for you guys ;-)
> It has statistics, options and other stuff, so try it out!!
> Requirements are povray3.5c and LAM/MPI 6.5.x
> What do you think about it??
> If you like it, I hope it can be added to the tools section on the
> povray homepage...
>
> Matthias

I think this file is corrupted. I have tried downloading it several times.
And made sure to clear the cache of the browser and delete the original
copy between tries. tar gives me errors when I try to unpack it. Is this
file hosted anywhere else?

Thanks,
-Dave

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ah...I used wget to download the file, and I am able to unpack it.

Best,
-Dave

"djzielin" <djz### [at] dukeedu> wrote:
> Matthias <mat### [at] webde> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > based on PVMPOV, we have created a MPI patch for povray 3.5c It works
> > quite well and has been tested on Linux (SuSE 7.3&8.0), Solaris 8.0 and
> > Irix.
> > It works with the new automake/autoconf system of povray 3.5, so just
> > unpack the archive to your povray directory and run './configure',
> > 'make' and 'make install', nothing new for you guys ;-)
> > It has statistics, options and other stuff, so try it out!!
> > Requirements are povray3.5c and LAM/MPI 6.5.x
> > What do you think about it??
> > If you like it, I hope it can be added to the tools section on the
> > povray homepage...
> >
> > Matthias
>
> I think this file is corrupted. I have tried downloading it several times.
> And made sure to clear the cache of the browser and delete the original
> copy between tries. tar gives me errors when I try to unpack it. Is this
> file hosted anywhere else?
>
> Thanks,
> -Dave

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Hi everyone,

I tried to setup mpi-povray based on Matthias patch, but i got this error
when i type make:

: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [povray] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/povray3.5/povray-3.50c/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

anyone have any idea bout this? thanx in advance!

Jack

"djzielin" <djz### [at] dukeedu> wrote:
> ah...I used wget to download the file, and I am able to unpack it.
>
> Best,
> -Dave
>
> "djzielin" <djz### [at] dukeedu> wrote:
> > Matthias <mat### [at] webde> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > based on PVMPOV, we have created a MPI patch for povray 3.5c It works
> > > quite well and has been tested on Linux (SuSE 7.3&8.0), Solaris 8.0 and
> > > Irix.
> > > It works with the new automake/autoconf system of povray 3.5, so just
> > > unpack the archive to your povray directory and run './configure',
> > > 'make' and 'make install', nothing new for you guys ;-)
> > > It has statistics, options and other stuff, so try it out!!
> > > Requirements are povray3.5c and LAM/MPI 6.5.x
> > > What do you think about it??
> > > If you like it, I hope it can be added to the tools section on the
> > > povray homepage...
> > >
> > > Matthias
> >
> > I think this file is corrupted. I have tried downloading it several times.
> > And made sure to clear the cache of the browser and delete the original
> > copy between tries. tar gives me errors when I try to unpack it. Is this
> > file hosted anywhere else?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Dave

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Vadim wrote:
> >
> > For those who are interested in parallel versions of Povray - I found an
> > easy way to do this with any version of Povray. :) Read this article:
> >
> > http://u.pereslavl.ru/~vadim/MCSharp/docs/povray/index.php
>
> Which is just yet another
> split-render-into-tiles-and-render-with-multiple-instances-of-POV-Ray
> tool in someone's favourite pet language.
>
> Various tools already exist for this:
>
> http://www.imp.org/impfarm/default.asp
> http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm
> http://www.imagico.de/povany/index.html
>
> which offer more functionality (esp. distributing a render across
> different computers).
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
> http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 31 Oct. 2005)
> MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

Hello:
Cristoph, as you already know from my previous posts regarding Povray and

Of all the links you list which one do you recommend the most?

I think povany would be a good one to try.

SMPov looks good to but do you know if it runs on Linux?

Thank You.

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