Re: [Yafray-devel] Fork-fix/command-line patch

[Steve Smith]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 04:25, Diego Pino Navarro wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Maybe my question is stupid(very),

Not at all.

>  but do you think there is  a way to make yafray work under Apples
>  Xgrid cluster app, using  your fork/thread modification + some coding?
>  I mean splitting an single render process in several independent
>  threads or forks that xgrid can effectively understand and  that can
>  be send to every node in apples grid  (and maybe as result get several
>  outputs(images) that can be batch joined together later?). I have just
>  tested xgrid using one/unique unix application over the network with
>  different parameters for each node, resulting in independent data
>  results that can be joined together later(math simulation), but it
>  looks like xgrid can make use of a threaded multi processor app and
>  distribute each job to a different node.

It sounds like it uses distributed-memory with process-migration, which
should work with the fork implementation.  One other possibility is that
it requires the processes to be started independently with different
command-lines, is this the case.  If so it would be more work, but
wouldn't be impossible.

> I hope it´s possible, anyway, i will try to compile your yafray with 
> your patch on my G4  and give it a test.

Definitely try it, it sounds like it could work. If not could you send
me any sort of developer info you have for how to develop for xgrid and
I'll see what it would take.

Cheers,
Steve