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  Re: I have a Sun Ultra10 sitting here doing nothing ...  
From: dclarke
Date: 14 Aug 1998 03:56:30
Message: <35D3DF3D.33788D39@interlog.com>
And here I thought that spare cpu was rare.  Guess not.

In any case, I'm still looking to benchmark it against a 'common' end-user
machine.

Roland Mas wrote:

> Dennis Clarke <dcl### [at] interlogcom> writes:
>
> > Seems like a colossal waste of CPU.  System is Sun Ultra10 workstation,
> > 256M ram, Creator 3D Series III video, Solaris 2.5.1 and yes PovRay is
> > installed and tested.  Since I'm not much of a povray person, I just
> > play with it, send me your .pov source and I'll render it for you 'cause
> > the box is doing nothing in particular over the next few days.
>
>   Just for information, could you post how many candidates you got? I
> bet more than 10... Anyway, that is a nice thing. Really. I think I
> would send you files, currently I spend too much time trying to get
> PVM-POV running on the 600-MHz-each-8-CPU AlphaServer *and* my both
> P-II-333-MHz in the same VM to be able to write scene files. And after
> that, I think I won't need it any more.
>
>   No joking, promise.
>
> Roland.
> P.S: No, I'm not offering the same service. These computers are not
> mine, but my company's. I even hesitate using them myself (half a
> second each time).
> --

> bob### [at] casimirrezelenstfr -- Linux, POV-Ray, LaTeX


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