Couple of things I found out in the past week that filled my geek heart with levels of geek joy until now not known by any geek anywhere (well, maybe just a little…) Continue reading
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POVRay linkies
Here’s some POVRay linkies for future use
http://columbiegg.com/httpov/ – Cool HTTP based distributed rendering system for POVRay – this may be a bit better than using SMPOV, below.
http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm – Windows based distributed rendering system. Got Windows boxes with extra CPU cycles? Then render your favorite 3D Model with extra CPU’s and get it done faster. Sweet.
More Render Power
I recently came across a couple of processors that just so happen to match a couple of old Motherboards I have. I threw all the hardware together and now I have a couple more render boxes for my POVRay exploits. That puts my rendering CPU Core Count at 7:
- Core 2 Duo E4300 @2.7GHz (2)
- Pentium D 805 @ 3.62 GHz (2)
- Athlon XP 1800+ @ 2GHz (1)
- Athlon XP 2000+ @ 1.78GHz (1)
- Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1.65GHz (1)
Gonna get everything squared away and try some test renders today .. if I can ever get woken up. Weekends + me = sleeeeeeeeeep.
On related news, I’ve been looking into MegaPOV XRS instead of SMPOV+POVRay. The SMPOV router is much easier for an old Windows salt like me to operate, but MegaPOV XRS is FASTER. Only one parse/photon pass per job run with MegaPOV XRS. Each machine doesnt have to parse and photon for every chunk it calculates like SMPOV and the system integrates much better.