NOTE
This announcement prepared by Chris Hurley, one of the
program's authors and a principle of interVISUAL Software.
TITLE
Plantation-Scalable Distributed Rendering for Lightwave 3d
VERSION
Version 1.0
COMPANY
interVISUAL Software
1080 Horseshoe Rd.
Augusta, GA 30906
USA
(706)793-4007
chrish@shell.portal.com
DESCRIPTION
Plantation is a distributed rendering solution for
Lightwave 3d.
Plantation orchestrates the rendering of Lightwave scenes by
multiple Lightwave-equipped Amigas on a network. Working in
tandem, the networked computers spread the work of rendering
an animation across the entire network, decreasing rendering
time and increasing productivity.
FEATURES
Plantation will manage the rendering of any number of scenes
up to memory limitations.
Plantation is flexible in the number of networked Amigas it
will support: any number up to the limit imposed by your
license and your network. Unattended rendering of multiple
scenes on a single machine is also supported.
Plantation Supports the DPS-Personal Animation Recorder, with
no additional setup, or waiting. Faster machines do not wait
on slower machines while rendering to the PAR.
Plantation supports nearly any network that can provide shared
access to a drawer, including Enlan-DFS, Envoy, Parnet,
AmiTCP (with NFS).
Plantation features an upgradable license. Start with a
two-user license, and upgrade to a 5, 10, or unlimited license
with a simple phone call.
An attractive, easy-to-use Intuition interface makes Plantation
a pleasure to use.
An installation script for use with the Installer is included.
Plantation was carefully tested with Enforcer to eliminate as
many machine-crashing bugs as possible.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Lightwave-equipped machines running:
Workbench 2.0 or later
Network software and hardware supporting a shared drawer.
PRICE
US Prices:
(license size determines the number of active machines)
2 user $100.00
5 user $150.00
10 user $200.00
20 user $300.00
shipping/handling $4.00
Custom licenses and upgrades are available.
Release date: Shipping November, 1994.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
Plantation is a commercial product.
Send check or money order to:
interVISUAL Software
1080 Horseshoe Rd.
Augusta, GA 30906
Dealer inquiries are welcome.
Information sheets are available via fax-on-demand at
phone number above.
OTHER
Basic Knowledge of AmigaDOS may be required.
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