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Hi!
I have not been using pov-ray myself for a while. But I currently have a server
which has a lot of free resources which runs 24/7. So, I thought I could offer
these as a free online rendering service. You upload a .zip file with all your
povray files and specify the params, then the server picks it up and produces
the image. Once it is done it emails you with a link to the picture. Should not
be too difficult to implement on the server side. But before I start working on
that I want to check if there is any demand for such a service. So, what do you
think?
- Micha
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From: Nekar Xenos
Subject: Re: Free povray rendering service
Date: 14 May 2013 23:16:38
Message: <op.ww3vd0r4ufxv4h@xena>
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On Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:36 +0200, Micha Riser <ris### [at] gmail com>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have not been using pov-ray myself for a while. But I currently have a
> server
> which has a lot of free resources which runs 24/7. So, I thought I could
> offer
> these as a free online rendering service. You upload a .zip file with
> all your
> povray files and specify the params, then the server picks it up and
> produces
> the image. Once it is done it emails you with a link to the picture.
> Should not
> be too difficult to implement on the server side. But before I start
> working on
> that I want to check if there is any demand for such a service. So, what
> do you
> think?
>
> - Micha
>
Sounds wonderful =)
--
-Nekar Xenos-
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That's a really nice offer.
Would *you* have to start the render personally? Or would the server present a
user with the POV-Ray app, letting the user start it remotely? (Sorry if this
sounds naive--I'm not too familiar with 'cloud computing,' if that's what's
involved here.)
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From: Nekar Xenos
Subject: Re: Free povray rendering service
Date: 15 May 2013 12:23:59
Message: <op.ww4vt8ugufxv4h@xena>
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On Wed, 15 May 2013 15:47:44 +0200, Kenneth <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> That's a really nice offer.
>
> Would *you* have to start the render personally? Or would the server
> present a
> user with the POV-Ray app, letting the user start it remotely? (Sorry if
> this
> sounds naive--I'm not too familiar with 'cloud computing,' if that's
> what's
> involved here.)
>
>
Tell us a bit more. What kind of server, how it would work, etc.
--
-Nekar Xenos-
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>
> Tell us a bit more. What kind of server, how it would work, etc.
>
Well, so far, it is only an idea. The server is a quad-core Intel(tm) core i7
with 32GB ram. So, nothing super fancy but still decent I guess. I intend to add
a web frontend where you need to create an account. Once logged in you can
upload a zip archive with all your sources in it and you can specify which size
and other params to povray. There will be a queue of pending images to render.
So, the jobs will be picked one after the other (or maybe 2-4 in parallel) and
rendered. To render it, the zip is unpacked (in a sandbox with let's say 10GB
disk) and the normal povray will be run to render your scene. The server runs on
linux, so I can set limits for mem usage of povray. I will probably also set
time limits, so that your jobs gets aborted after 12 hours or so. Maybe put it
back in the queue and allow it to be resumed when it is again at the head of the
queue. Once the rendering is done, you will get an email and you can download
the resulting image. It is not really a cloud thingy as it is a single server
and so.. but nowadays everything that runs on a server is called cloud, so well
:o)
- Micha
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> Well, so far, it is only an idea. The server is a quad-core Intel(tm) core i7
> with 32GB ram. So, nothing super fancy but still decent I guess. I intend to add
> a web frontend where you need to create an account. Once logged in you can
> upload a zip archive with all your sources in it and you can specify which size
> and other params to povray. There will be a queue of pending images to render.
> So, the jobs will be picked one after the other (or maybe 2-4 in parallel) and
> rendered. To render it, the zip is unpacked (in a sandbox with let's say 10GB
> disk) and the normal povray will be run to render your scene. The server runs on
> linux, so I can set limits for mem usage of povray. I will probably also set
> time limits, so that your jobs gets aborted after 12 hours or so. Maybe put it
> back in the queue and allow it to be resumed when it is again at the head of the
> queue. Once the rendering is done, you will get an email and you can download
> the resulting image. It is not really a cloud thingy as it is a single server
> and so.. but nowadays everything that runs on a server is called cloud, so well
> :o)
Sounds like a very good idea.
Not wishing to try and run before walking, but if it's successful then
people could also register their "spare" servers on your web interface,
which would then get used transparently (to the user wanting render work
done). Your server would manage farming the work out to others and
collecting the results etc. I'm sure lots of people have or have access
to servers that are not doing much (CPU-wise) most of the time. Then it
would truly be a POV cloud renderer :-)
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