gson@joker.hut.fi (Andreas Gustafsson) (10/06/90)
MandelSpawn, version 0.05, is now available for anonymous FTP from funic.funet.fi, file /pub/unix/X11/contrib/ms-0.05.tar.Z. MandelSpawn is a distributed Mandelbrot program for the X window system. It consists of an X11-based interactive client program and a computation server program that is typically run on several hosts to do the Mandelbrot calculations in parallel. The hosts may be of different types, and they need not all run X. On some architectures, MandelSpawn uses fixed-point arithmetic for greater speed. The ideal environment for MandelSpawn is a workstation class with 5..50 Unix machines. A typical 1152 x 900 pixel, 250-colour image is calculated in less than 30 seconds using 30 68030-based workstations. Changes from version 0.04 include bug fixes, more flexible colormap handling, and faster calculation of areas inside the Mandelbrot set. MandelSpawn is available under the GNU General Public License, version 1. -- Andreas Gustafsson Internet: gson@niksula.hut.fi Voice: +358 0 563 5592