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From: Kevin Loney
Subject: Setting up a small render farm
Date: 11 Mar 2002 19:05:42
Message: <3c8d4656$1@news.povray.org>

This thursday is my schools open house and I've run the idea of setting up a
small povray render farm past my teacher. I have permission to do it as a
demostration of the things our lab is capable of, now I'm working out the
technical details.

Anyone have a quick rundown on how to set this up, and a pointer to program
that will allow me to do this? Technical assistance will be much
appreciated.

--
Kevin
http://www.geocities.com/qsquared_1999/

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From: Hugo
Subject: Re: Setting up a small render farm
Date: 13 Mar 2002 04:01:51
Message: <3c8f157f@news.povray.org>

> Anyone have a quick rundown on how to set this up, and a pointer to
program
> that will allow me to do this? Technical assistance will be much
> appreciated.

Not many replies here.  :o)  I'm afraid I can't provide the technical
assistance either but I found links on www.povray.org to these programs
(though I never tried them) :

http://www.wozzeck.net/images/pmp/
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~wrooney/

Good luck.

Regards
Hugo

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From: John Haiducek
Subject: Re: Setting up a small render farm
Date: 14 Mar 2002 14:59:27
Message: <3C91011F.2050707@umich.edu>

It seems I'm too late to help, but here's what I know about render farming:

If you are using UNIX or Linux you can use PVMPOV. The usual method, 
however, is to have each computer do a separate part of the scene, using 
the start row and end row options (+sr## +er##.) If you are using UNIX 
or Linux you can write a script to automate this. In Windows or 
Macintosh you'll need to have to start each computer manually on the 
render, or write a program that coordinates all the computers to render 
their respective portions of the render.

John Haiducek

Kevin Loney wrote:

> This thursday is my schools open house and I've run the idea of setting up a
> small povray render farm past my teacher. I have permission to do it as a
> demostration of the things our lab is capable of, now I'm working out the
> technical details.
> 
> Anyone have a quick rundown on how to set this up, and a pointer to program
> that will allow me to do this? Technical assistance will be much
> appreciated.
> 
> --
> Kevin
> http://www.geocities.com/qsquared_1999/
> 
> 
>

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