C3D is both a collaborative application and a distributed raytracer: users can interact through messaging and voting facilities in order to choose a scene that is renderer using a set of distributed rendering engines working in parallel. Near-linear speedup is achieved with up to half a dozen rendering engines running in parallel and communicating using ProActive.
There is a benchmark version that is an automation of C3D, measuring the performance of a 3D raytracer renderer distributed over several Java virtual machines. This benchmark gives indication of the performance of ProActive, the serialization process, and Java RMI itself.
@author ProActive Team @version 1.0, 2001/10/23 @since ProActive 0.7