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

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I've discussed that with the drqueue developer. We have to wait for  
someone providing the content for such page(s). Don't ask yourself why  
something doesn't happen, ask yourself what you can do! :)

-Ton-

On 9 Feb, 2005, at 8:00, K. Richard Rhodes wrote:

> I myself use DrQueue 0.59.1 and have wondered why this isn't offered on
> the blender3d.org page as yafray is?
>
> K
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:41 +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a starter; multi-processes is different from multi-threaded!
>> What I coded right now is 2 threads using shared memory, and is still
>> heavily scanline-based, and is very difficult to extend to more than 2
>> CPUs even. What I've aimed for is support for artist's workstations,  
>> it
>> is not likely 4 or 8 CPUs will get to the desktop anytime soon. :)
>>
>> I also consider Blender still an animator's tool, so a render system
>> (cluster) can also be based on the assumption you need to render 100s
>> of frames. There are many different projects going around on network
>> rendering, with drqueue being one of the more visible/working  
>> projects.
>> I still hope people can start cooperating a bit on this topic, having
>> (like now) 5 completely different approaches doesn't help us well.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>>
>> On 7 Feb, 2005, at 19:19, 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.
>>>
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