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Hi,
I know this is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I didn't
see one that answered my question so... I just got up
my SMP Linux box at home and was wondering if there was
a version of POV with SMP support?
-fjr
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Frank J. Ramsay
fjr### [at] marsdome penguinpoweredcom
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Frank Ramsay wrote:
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> Hi,
> I know this is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I didn't
> see one that answered my question so... I just got up
> my SMP Linux box at home and was wondering if there was
> a version of POV with SMP support?
I don't think you are going to find one, at least I an not familiar with
any port for SMP operations. There is a good article on this at the
following link:
http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/RTNews/html/rtnv12n2.html#art3
You will also find some more info on this in the VFAQ at:
http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/
--
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/
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Frank Ramsay wrote:
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> Hi,
> I know this is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I didn't
> see one that answered my question so... I just got up
> my SMP Linux box at home and was wondering if there was
> a version of POV with SMP support?
There is no threaded version of POV-Ray; that's going to require a
rather extensive rewrite, since the code is cluttered with global
variables that date back a long ways. You can take some advantage of
multiple processors by using one of the parallel versions of POV-Ray
that is designed for clusters. The performance increase won't be quite
as good as you might hope, and you'll effectively be running two
instances, so it will take up twice as much memory as it would
otherwise. But it's better than single-processor. Try looking into
PVMPOV.
-Mark Gordon
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