There are raytracing programs for the Crays, but they're not POV...
One of my former employers moved into an office that was being
vacated by Cray, and I got a short stack of 'Cray Times'
(an internal monthly newsletter) out of the throw-away pile.
On the back of each was a picture done on a cray and many were
raytraced.  One of them I recall was basically all shiny reflecting
metal, and it had rendered in I think 17 sec.  Fastest thing
I had access to at the time was a 32 MIP VAX 6340 (4 processor
VAX) or a Compaq 386-20e.  My homebrew Pascal raytracer
(before I'd found POV) ran one scene of comperable complexity
in 80 HOURS on the 386...
  I do have an DEC Alpha 500 at my disposal - I've been wondering
how that would stack up to a P4 1.7GHz...

Emory

Justin Smith wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall one of the "ancient ruins" IRTC stills was claimed to be
> done on a Cray 3, and the artist claimed the render time was 1 second.

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