[Radiance-general] Re: What platforms are people using for Radiance?

[R Fritz]

Thanks!

I suppose I'd qualify that as Linux; for my purposes it is, anyway.

Ecotect ships a native Windows version--not sure how that was built.

Randolph

On Jul 1, 2008, at 7:58 AM, Jack de Valpine wrote:

> Hi Randolph,
>
> I am not quite sure how you would qualify this but another option  
> for running Radiance on "Windows", is to run a linux virtual machine  
> with something like VMWare Player. We use linux vms on windows for  
> doing scene setup/prep before sending off to more powerful servers  
> (linux on commodity parts built systems) for actual processing. I   
> also know that there is some great effort at supporting Radiance on  
> Cygwin/Mingw provided by Francesco Anselmo:
> http://www.bozzograo.net/radiance/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index
> However, I think if you are in need of all out performance, then  
> Radiance on Linux or OS X is probably the way to go. Solaris is not  
> on the list (from my point of view) as I do not really know much  
> about the associated hardware costs. It is not that difficult to put  
> together a powerful system using commodity parts (www.newegg.com for  
> example) with Linux as the OS. I suspect that an Apple/Mac will cost  
> more, but I also know that some of the heavies in our community here  
> prefer that platform/os.... ;->
>
> Regards,
>
> -Jack de Valpine
>
> R Fritz wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Mark, Rob G., and Lars. I scanned the benchmark page and  
>> found a few SPARCs, too. Sun Studio and Sun WorkShop compilers are  
>> mentioned.
>>
>> So far I have:
>> Mac (PPC/Intel)
>> Windows (Intel)
>> Linux (Intel)
>> Solaris (SPARC/Intel)
>>
>> Mark, you mentioned you are using Cygwin; is there anyone using  
>> Windows and *not* using Cygwin? Any MS SFU or SUA users?
>>
>> Randolph
>>
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