[Bf-committers] Blender and OpenMosix... does it have any sense ?

joeedh joeeagar at prodigy.net
Mon Feb 7 19:27:35 CET 2005


malefico andauer wrote:

>Hi People,
>
>I was doing a few tests with Open Mosix, and after
>reading some papers, I realized that for Blender being
>able to use such clustering system, it has to be
>written/coded in a way that rendering can be splitted
>in different processes (this will sound incredible
>obvious for most of you, but you know...)
>
>I wonder if are there any plans or ideas to adapt
>blender so rendering could be turned into
>multiprocessing, so we can set up a renderfarm using
>Open Mosix ? Does this have any sense or current
>network rendering tools are already working OK so
>there is no need of Open Mosix whatsoever ?
>
>Regards.
>
>malefico.
>
>  
>
Ton did just make the renderer thread-safe, for multiple CPU rendering.

joeedh


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