POV-Ray parallelized on ParMa2

MPIPOV is a port of POV-ray  to MPI. POV-Ray is a well-known open source raytracer engine. With this application on ParMa2 cluster it is possible to increase computation speed that is one of the major problem in raytracing algorithm.

MPIPOV release:
release  pov version notes
MPIPOV1 2.2 static subdvision of load
MPIPOV2 2.2 with load balancing
MPIPOV3 3.0 (not documented !)
MPIPOV3 3.1 antialiasing optimized
 
 

RESULTS: 
 
 

 
 
node
time (s)
1
60
2
30
3
24
4
19
5
15
6
12
7
10
8
9
 
The picture shows speed up obtained running MPIPOV on  Parma2. 

Related links: 

POV-BENCH 

POv-Ray official Web Page 

  MPI 

PVMPOV : another parallel POV-Ray implementation using PVM

  
 
Last Update October 18,1999
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Favas and Franco Boselli