[Radiance-general] multiprocessor systems, Radiance, and you

[Lars O. Grobe]

Hi,

I still didn't manage to try it wirh radiance, but (open)mosix might be a 
great addition, as it represents a cluster as a smp-machine, so you don't 
need rsh and co., and it has an included file system that gives you access to 
all clustered filesystems. So the nfs issue might belong to the past in 
mosix-environments.

Regarding the original question: I didn't need more than on processor working 
on a scene so far. Current machines usually render one picture in a time to 
short to make me think about using rpiece, if I need more than one picture, I 
usually start two rendering processes (I had some very large renderings with 
5000x5000 pixel on a 4way-Sun 880, that was one case that I had more than one 
rendering process at a time). Of course, the memory might become a problem if 
you do so.

I still want to try mosix, but at the moment, I simply don't have the time ;-)

CU, Lars.