From: Mike Shivas <mshivas@book.com>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing
Subject: POVPVM Animation
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:44:40 -0400
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Hi

I'm running POVPVM on a heterogenous Linux cluster. I plugged the memory
leak, but now I notice that rendering animations slows the whole cluster
down to the speed of the slowest machine. In order to safely execute any
pre-frame or post-frame processing directives in the right order, povpvm
waits for the last one of the set to complete before starting the next
set. So the 233 G3 machine churns thru' frame 1 in 10 seconds, but then
sits around doing nothing while the 133 Pentium laptop with 16Mb of RAM
shows up a minute later.

Is there any way to have POVPVM render animations the same way it
renders single frames, i.e. all CPU's working together on a single
frame? Alternatively, is there any way to have it not pause, as I'm not
doing any post or pre-frame processing?

Thanks

Mike