[rescue] using blender alone is going to be painful

[James Sharp]

I've been playing around with Tachyon lately...it uses a network aware MPI
for parallelism.  I've got it spanned across a quad P3/333 machine, a
433Mhz 21264 Alpha, a 1.4Ghz Athlon, and a 650Mhz P3 machine.

ZOOOOOOOM.  The only problem is that its the result of a college grad's
project, so there's really no UI and its about as userfriendly as a bad
case of herpes.  But it does take a file format that I can generate via
another program that takes in standard files like DXF & OBJ....so we'll
see what I can do with it.



> The new renderer that we are moving to (Exluna's Entropy) is heavily
> multithreaded. When we run it on our 8way, it pegs all the processors. It
> really flies on our new Dual 1.5GHz Athlon render slaves. We are very
> impressed with Entropy, it is really nice. The developers are great to deal
> with and we have had very good output from it. We just bought 60 seats
> actually.