Re: Demo

[Dale Southard <southard1@llnl.gov>]

Heiko Bauke <Heiko.Bauke@Student.UNI-Magdeburg.DE> writes:

> I' locking for a nice demo program to demonstrate the power of
> beowulf computers. It should give some graphical output that's easy
> to understand for people who are not mathematician or physicists.
> Any idea? Rendering Mandelbrot sets is too easy.
> 
> We are using Linux and MPI (LAM).

Several have already suggested the pov-ray stuff, but if you'd rather
have sound than pictures, the LAM/MPI maintainer has parallelized both
the BladeEnc MP3 encoder and a version of the OggVorbis encoder:

  http://www.mpi.nd.edu/~jsquyres/bladeenc/
  http://www.mpi.nd.edu/~jsquyres/vorbis/

Both are likely to work well with LAM/MPI.  :-)


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