[Brlcad-commits] CVS: brlcad/src/adrt README,1.6,1.7
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From: Justin S. <tw...@us...> - 2005-07-18 21:26:35
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Update of /cvsroot/brlcad/brlcad/src/adrt In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv12832 Modified Files: README Log Message: updated README for ISST Index: README =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/brlcad/brlcad/src/adrt/README,v retrieving revision 1.6 retrieving revision 1.7 diff -w -u -r1.6 -r1.7 --- README 12 Jul 2005 21:01:52 -0000 1.6 +++ README 18 Jul 2005 21:26:25 -0000 1.7 @@ -1,18 +1,50 @@ +Info: +===== ADRT consists of several libraries and tools including the Realistic -Image Synthesis Engine (RISE). These tools consist of three binaries: -a master, an observer, and a slave. To generate a framework that RISE -can use, look at the g-adrt converter. g-adrt takes a .g file -containing bots and creates an ADRT framework. +Image Synthesis Engine (RISE) and ISST (Interactive Shot Selection +Tool). These tools consist of three binaries: a master, an observer, +and a slave. To generate a framework that RISE can use, look at the +g-adrt converter. g-adrt takes a .g file containing bots and creates an +ADRT framework. Since RISE is used for generating images, the observer is only supplied to check up on the images progress, which is especially useful for time consuming renderings. Running configure with --enable-optimized is very important as it will -affect performance by almost doubling performance. +affect performance by almost doubling it. To learn more about how the structure of a project file and what -geometry files you can feed to ivat or rise please check the doc -directory for help with RISE. +geometry files you can feed to isst or rise please check the doc +directory. For additional help please check out the #brlcad channel on IRC (freenode). + + +Usage: +====== +Method 1 - Manually Connecting Compute Nodes: +Step 1. + isst_master /path/to/project.env + +Step 2. + isst_observer master.host.name + +Step 3. + isst_slave master.host.name + +Step 4. + repeat step 3 on all slave nodes. + + +Method 2 - Connecting to Slave Daemons: +Step 1. + login to each compute node and run isst_slave& (background process). + +Step 2. + isst_master -l slaves.txt /path/to/project.env + (slaves.txt contains each slave hostname per line). + +Step 3. + isst_observer master.host.name + |