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Finally, my Arduino USB board has arrived. The Arduino is an open-source platform for physical computing which allows you to integrate your circuits with a simple microcontroller. While other boards are rather expensive, the Arduino is cheap (EUR 25,-) and comes with a very easy-to-use development software…
Ever read Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
I love the idea, and with Second Life it has become real.
During the lecture today, I also demonstrated how to submit jobs to the Unicore Testbed. It is very easy to install the client and get running.
If you want to play around with the Persistance of Vision Raytracer, here are my files: The Unicore job definition and the möbius input file.
Please note the Unicore job definition is a hack: it doesn’t exploit many of Unicores features. Of course, you can use any povray input file, and change the povray parameters to generate bigger images. But please keep in mind: this is a demonstration testbed, so please do not hack the system, or generate a lot of traffic.