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Introduction
Povray, the Persistent of Vision raytracer provides a quite interesting example of what can be done with the barley cluster. Povray, as of version 3.6 is still single threaded, just as it was in the very early '90's when the project began. Additionally, povray provides a graphical representation of cpu cycles to help us learn how to think about break problems up into pieces which can be run on a cluster.
Povray as it is run normally will ingest a scene file and crunch on it for some minutes or hours and produce a .png image file. For the scene files in this example, this takes approx XX minutes. What is interesting is that if you run povray with the camera in different locations you can generate a series of .png files - a "fly through" - in what is called "embarrassingly parallel" in HPC. Embarrassingly parallel means that each job that is run shares no data with any other job. They can all be executed at the same time.
Methodology
For this example there is really no need to assess cardinality, as we will decide on how many individual raytrace jobs to run by how smooth we want the final video.
#!/usr/bin/python import os import datetime howmany = 240 startjob = datetime.datetime.now() for i in xrange(1, howmany+1): num = i/float( howmany) job = 'qsub -N poviogen-%03d ~/poviogen.submit %.3f %03d' % (i, num, i) os.system(job) print job endjob = datetime.datetime.now() print 'time to submit all jobs: ', endjob-startjob
poviogen.submit
#$ -cwd #$ -j y #$ -S /bin/bash echo "Got $NSLOTS slots" cat $PE_HOSTFILE echo "clock: $1" povray Display=false Width=1900 Height=1080 +K$1 +A0.01 Output_File_Name=/mnt/glusterfs/bishopj/poviogen/poviogen.$2.png /mnt/glusterfs/bishopj/poviogen/jasonfoo-100read-0random.pov
run this command to take the pile of .png's produced by povray and create a HD mpeg4 video:
mencoder mf://*.png -mf w=1900:h=1080:fps=24:type=png -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:aspect=16/9:vbitrate=16000 -oac copy -o output.avi
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