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  Re: SIMD implementation of dot-product in POV-Ray???  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 29 Nov 1999 05:07:53
Message: <qqmn1rx626f.fsf@goldach.fmi.uni-konstanz.de>
Mark Gordon <mtg### [at] mailbagcom> writes:

> Chris Huff wrote:
> >  
> > Which ones? I can only think of the #system patch, which is actually OS
> > dependant, not processor dependant. I don't think there has been one
> > processor dependant patch(except maybe PVMPOV).
> 
> I'm pretty sure PVMPOV is more OS-dependent (needs some flavor of Unix)
> than CPU-dependent.  I've only used it on x96-Linux myself, but I'd be
> surprised if it didn't work on SPARC-Solaris, for instance, assuming you
> can get PVM for SPARC-Solaris.

You can get it from ftp://netlib2.cs.utk.edu/pvm3/ and it works with PVMPOV.
(I tried it myself some time ago.)

Thomas 

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