Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!raytrace From: raytrace@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Phil Dench) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Any interest in a parallel raytrace Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 15:43:27 GMT References: <105@avatar.avatar.com> <5300040@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@uniwa.uwa.oz (USENET News System) Organization: Curtin University of Technology, Computing Science Lines: 23 Our raytracer has been using farming (squirting out individual frames to different machines on a hetereogenous network for animation) and intra-frame distribution (batches of scanlines as above for a single image) for about 18 months and we have found (obviously) great benefit in this for animation work. (We sell the raytracer - it is not PD). We use rshells and rcopies for our distribution but feel that a UNIX socket approach may be more appropriate with daemons on both ends to master and serve the distribution. Any body done anything along these lines?? -- Phil Dench --------------------------------------------+---------------------------------- | School of Computer Science, ACSNet: raytrace@cutmcvax.oz | Curtin University of Technology, UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!cutmcvax!raytrace | Kent Street, ARPA: raytrace%cutmcvax.oz@uunet.UU.NET | Bentley | Western Australia, 6102 --------------------------------------------+----------------------------------