History

The project started in Febuary 2009 in the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science of the Leiden University.

Introduction

We could define GC3D as a Web-based Distributed rendering. The goal is to provide a web interface where people could upload POV-Ray (*.pov) file, specify some options, and then get the result from the server. easy

And everything over the Grid ! wow

It is a kind of Lego result, we took a lot of box (component) and built them together to make a cool project. The difference here is the complexity of the Lego-box, we spent lot of times on research, documentation, Google, Wikipedia, etc...

Finaly the project, developed in Java with Eclipse, use:

• GridGain (server & nodes)
• Tomcat 6 (server)
• Apache FTP server (server)
• POV-Ray (Linux nodes)
• MegaPOV (Windows nodes)
• MEncoder (server)
• x264 (server)
• JQuery (interface JavaScript)
• a lot of jars (Apache common & fileupload & ftpclient / spring fw / ...)

Details

• GridGain
• MegaPOV