Mike Williams <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:
> The figures there are for the POV 3.5 benchmark and go as low as 
> 11 mins 7 for a single CPU and 1 minute 12 for 128 CPUs in parallel.

  How reliable those results are? What measures, if any, do the maintainers
of the site take to verify that the results are genuine?

  For example, I find it difficult to believe that a 1GHz Itanium2 is
almost twice faster than a 3GHz P4, a 2.8GHz Xeon or a 2.5GHz Athlon XP
(specially considering that it's the *only* entry using an itanium, so
we don't have comparable times with other itanium systems).
  If the result is genuine, I would certainly like to know how it is
possible.

  There are many other entries which are difficult to believe as well.
For example a 1.8GHz Opteron being faster than a 2.5GHz Athlon XP.

  The results might be genuine in that they show real rendering times,
but how can we be sure that they really used the proper rendering
settings when running the benchmark? If you render for example
without antialiasing you will get, surprise surprise, an enormously
faster time.

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