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From: Dean Giberson
Subject: Distributed Processing
Date: 22 Apr 1999 17:08:04
Message: <371f81a4.0@news.povray.org>
Does anyone know of or have pointers to distributed processing with POVRay?
Or if that fails are there any fellow code mongers out there that know how
hard this would be to add to the source.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Distributed Processing
Date: 22 Apr 1999 17:57:21
Message: <371F8CD2.28E0AF88@pacbell.net>
Dean Giberson wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of or have pointers to distributed processing with POVRay?
> Or if that fails are there any fellow code mongers out there that know how
> hard this would be to add to the source.


 It has been down before. Check the following links for more info:

Cmaster
http://www.student.hig.se/~kp97gbc/povpage/index.html

DistPov
http://www.cus.umist.ac.uk/~ivarch/linux/distpov.html

PvmPov
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/pvmpov/index.html

Plus one online service at:
http://manson.ddns.org/webpovray/index.html


Additionaly Joseph Strout(Stout ?) started a thread about this
subject on the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing newgroup just
this week and would like to talk to anyone interested in the
develoment of a new implementatin for the current versions of
Pov. He is mainly in an information gathering stage now and
nothing is concrete as to whether it will come to be or not.


Regards,

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Jim Kress
Subject: Re: Distributed Processing
Date: 23 Apr 1999 16:27:41
Message: <3720c9ad.0@news.povray.org>
You might want to submit this question and answer to the VFAQ since it seems
to come up frequently.

--
Jim

Check out my web site http://www.kressworks.com/
It'll blow your mind (politically), stimulate your senses (artistically)
and provide scientific insights beyond compare!

Ken wrote in message <371F8CD2.28E0AF88@pacbell.net>...
>Dean Giberson wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of or have pointers to distributed processing with
POVRay?
>> Or if that fails are there any fellow code mongers out there that know
how
>> hard this would be to add to the source.
>
>
> It has been down before. Check the following links for more info:
>
>Cmaster
>http://www.student.hig.se/~kp97gbc/povpage/index.html
>
>DistPov
>http://www.cus.umist.ac.uk/~ivarch/linux/distpov.html
>
>PvmPov
>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/pvmpov/index.html
>
>Plus one online service at:
>http://manson.ddns.org/webpovray/index.html
>
>
>Additionaly Joseph Strout(Stout ?) started a thread about this
>subject on the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing newgroup just
>this week and would like to talk to anyone interested in the
>develoment of a new implementatin for the current versions of
>Pov. He is mainly in an information gathering stage now and
>nothing is concrete as to whether it will come to be or not.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Distributed Processing
Date: 23 Apr 1999 17:06:48
Message: <3720D275.249C7E58@pacbell.net>
Jim Kress wrote:
> 
> You might want to submit this question and answer to the VFAQ since it seems
> to come up frequently.
> 
> --
> Jim

Funny. I had the exact same thought as I was writing this reply.
Even stranger is that the number of times I have now replied to
the same question you would think I would have thought of that
before.

Warp ! Are you out there listening to this ?

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Jon A  Cruz
Subject: Re: Distributed Processing
Date: 24 Apr 1999 19:31:02
Message: <37224637.C96A376D@geocities.com>
Ken wrote:

> Dean Giberson wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of or have pointers to distributed processing with POVRay?
> > Or if that fails are there any fellow code mongers out there that know how
> > hard this would be to add to the source.
>
>  It has been down before. Check the following links for more info:
>
> Cmaster
> http://www.student.hig.se/~kp97gbc/povpage/index.html
>
> DistPov
> http://www.cus.umist.ac.uk/~ivarch/linux/distpov.html
>
> PvmPov
> http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/pvmpov/index.html
>
> Plus one online service at:
> http://manson.ddns.org/webpovray/index.html
>
> Additionaly Joseph Strout(Stout ?) started a thread about this
> subject on the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing newgroup just
> this week and would like to talk to anyone interested in the
> develoment of a new implementatin for the current versions of
> Pov. He is mainly in an information gathering stage now and
> nothing is concrete as to whether it will come to be or not.

And I have more of a WAN-oriented version underway at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/rfarm/

Now that things are taken care of like deadlines at work, getting taxes in,
getting going with Linux at home (finally)... work is once again in progress.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Distributed Processing
Date: 25 Apr 1999 00:49:48
Message: <37229075.7E1FBC9C@pacbell.net>
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> 
> > Dean Giberson wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of or have pointers to distributed processing with POVRay?
> > > Or if that fails are there any fellow code mongers out there that know how
> > > hard this would be to add to the source.
> >
> >  It has been down before. Check the following links for more info:
> >
> > Cmaster
> > http://www.student.hig.se/~kp97gbc/povpage/index.html
> >
> > DistPov
> > http://www.cus.umist.ac.uk/~ivarch/linux/distpov.html
> >
> > PvmPov
> > http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/pvmpov/index.html
> >
> > Plus one online service at:
> > http://manson.ddns.org/webpovray/index.html
> >
> > Additionaly Joseph Strout(Stout ?) started a thread about this
> > subject on the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing newgroup just
> > this week and would like to talk to anyone interested in the
> > develoment of a new implementatin for the current versions of
> > Pov. He is mainly in an information gathering stage now and
> > nothing is concrete as to whether it will come to be or not.
> 
> And I have more of a WAN-oriented version underway at
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/rfarm/
> 
> Now that things are taken care of like deadlines at work, getting taxes in,
> getting going with Linux at home (finally)... work is once again in progress.


 Thanks for the tip Jon. Is this in cooperation with the work being
done by Nigel Stewart for the the IMP or is this a seperate project
all together ? If this is a seperate project that would make it the
third or possibly the fourth such project that I know people are
working on to make an up to date distributed renderg process for
Pov. Sure is a lot of recent interest in this area !

Regards,

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Nigel Stewart
Subject: Re: Distributed Processing
Date: 25 Apr 1999 02:14:00
Message: <3722A392.4AFF7D45@eisa.net.au>
> > And I have more of a WAN-oriented version underway at
> > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/rfarm/
> >
> > Now that things are taken care of like deadlines at work, getting taxes in,
> > getting going with Linux at home (finally)... work is once again in progress.
> 
>  Thanks for the tip Jon. Is this in cooperation with the work being
> done by Nigel Stewart for the the IMP or is this a seperate project
> all together ? 

	Jon and I are doing seperate work - Jon is working top-down,
	I'm working bottom-up, and sometime we'll meet-up and get
	it all working.  Jon is working on the scene distribution
	aspects, network protocol, etc.  I've been fiddling with
	aspects of POV that could be useful for network rendering:

	-  File dependency determination, for a given frame of animation.
	-  Facility to use TAR files as read-only filesystem.
	   (Basically to break the tyranny of 8.3 filenames)
	-  Filesystem file queing mechanism for passive render-slave
	   mode.  (Put all incoming INI's in the 'in' folder, output
	   gets dumped in 'out' folder)

	I hope this clarifies things.

-- 
Nigel Stewart (nig### [at] eisanetau)  http://www.eisa.net.au/~nigels/
Postgrad Research Student, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
All extremists should be taken out and shot.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Distributed Processing
Date: 25 Apr 1999 02:33:06
Message: <3722A8AA.C96028BD@pacbell.net>
Nigel Stewart wrote:

>         Jon and I are doing seperate work
<snip>
>         I hope this clarifies things.
> 
> --
> Nigel Stewart (nig### [at] eisanetau)  http://www.eisa.net.au/~nigels/
> Postgrad Research Student, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
> All extremists should be taken out and shot.

It did and thank you.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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