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

[Georg Mischler]

Rob Guglielmetti wrote:

> I was hoping for the ability to make both cpus appear as one,
> transparently to Radiance.

I don't expect this to happen. Actual job management is outside
of the scope of core Radiance, and belongs into user interface
level applications.


> > I didn't check: Is PVM also available for Windows?
>
> Yes (http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html).  Maybe the beginnings
> of the next feature of Rayfront?  =8-)

As has been discussed before, everybody wants a reliable, platform
independent, and network transparent ambient data sharing mechanism.
If PVM can solve this task better through inter-process communication
than the old file locking trickery, then that's certainly worth a
closer look. Again, that's only the actual functionality. Any higher
level coordination between the jobs should be handled by other tools.


-schorsch

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