I used to work for Sun (but not on SGE). I had a quick look at it. We could create our own grid. There's also things like BOINC, but BOINC is a research grid. BOINC is something you download and install on your machine and it allows people to run stuff on your machine. There's a control panel and you decide which projects to donate your spare computrons to. For example, you could say 50% to einst...@home and 50% to s...@home. Then, you ignore it. When you're computer's screenlock comes on, your computer starts working on these tasks. It sits there, gets a new task, and when it's done, it returns the results. As soon as you come back to your computer, it stops the grid task. You never know it's there. I've been running it for years on my computers and never had a problem with it.
I don't know if BOINC would let us build something to let people submit panos to a grid that used the BOINC platform. This may be overkill, and it may take a central server somewhere. In the shorter term, it would be very worth while if hugin could be split into two parts, a server and a client which could submit things to the server(s). Bruno, when you talk about a makefile model, where can I see that? I see, on windows, there's a make.exe, and I'm familiar with make. Where/how are these makefiles generated that make is run on? Would the other machines need access to all the images in the pano? Could only the overlapping parts of the images be sent to the other server for stitching? Michael On Jan 12, 12:38 am, Roger Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > There used to be a product from SUN, called Sun Grid Engine (SGE) > that was made to distribute jobs over multiple computers for > processing. It was free a couple years ago, I haven't looked lately, > now that Oracle owns them. It might be worth looking into. As I > recall, it would run on Windows, Linux, or Solaris systems, but they all > had to be the same OS in the grid. > Roger Goodman > > On 1/11/2011 6:10 PM, Bruno Postle wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue 11-Jan-2011 at 09:37 -0800, michael.grant wrote: > > >> Could hugin be split up to run part of it's stitching remotely? > > > Yes, the Makefile stitching system used by Hugin is very suited to > > distribution over multiple machines. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
