[Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)

[Greg Ward]

It will be interesting to see what ChromeOS develops into.  Right now, it's more of a browser manager for accessing online tools, and doesn't have much in the way of compilers or a runtime environment to speak of.  Kind of a waste of a laptop, if you ask me....

-Greg

> From: "Randolph M. Fritz" <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)
> Date: August 24, 2015 4:53:04 PM PDT
> 
> Sigh. I think in a few more years, anyone who is interested in
> scientific computing, rather than business functions or social
> networking, is going to be running ChromeOS.
> --
> Randolph M. Fritz, Lighting Design and Simulation
> +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Many thanks for the quick turn-around on that, Rob!  This mostly applies to Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) users, but anyone who cares to do a before/after timing, that would also be useful.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -Greg
>> 
>>> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
>>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and Yosemite bug)
>>> Date: August 21, 2015 2:47:03 PM PDT
>>> 
>>> To that end, I just moved the NREL 5.0.a.4 release tag up to Greg's latest
>>> commit, and have posted a fresh Mac installer on there, so now you don't
>>> even have to be able to compile from source to help Greg test this out!
>>> Come and get it:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/tag/5.0.a.4
>>> 
>>> Windows (including 32-bit!) and Linux packages will be re-made and
>>> re-posted to this release page shortly.
>>> 
>>> - Rob
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 8/21/15, 2:19 PM, "Greg Ward" <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have not tested all the programs fully under Yosemite to make sure
>>>> there are no more deadlocks.  I would appreciate help on that from the
>>>> user community ahead of the official 5.0 release, which I'm hoping to get
>>>> out in the next week or so.  That means getting a 5.0a installer out or
>>>> getting volunteers who don't mind compiling from source to run rvu,
>>>> rtrace, rcontrib, genBSDF, etc. in -n >1 mode....
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -Greg
>>>> 
>>>>> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] strange artifacts in rendering (and
>>>>> Yosemite bug)
>>>>> Date: August 21, 2015 1:06:40 PM PDT
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is fantastic news! (Roland/Lars, take note...)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't recall, is there a concrete test for the fork() thing? I was
>>>>> just in the midst of re-making the Radiance packages (we need to support
>>>>> 32-bit Windows still), but I will *happily* reset the release tag to
>>>>> this commit and start over again, if it means I get to re-enable
>>>>> OpenStudio-Radiance multithreading on Yosemite!
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/21/15, 12:59 PM, "Gregory J. Ward"
>>>>> <gregoryjward at gmail.com<mailto:gregoryjward at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> In any event, I checked in a change that I'm hoping fixes this issue
>>>>> under Yosemite, while not costing us too much on all the other Unix
>>>>> platforms that don't have this issue.
>> 
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