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Which platform would have the faster rendering times,
A Sun Workstation (or SGI machine)
or
A Top end PC
????
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That really depends on how much money your willing to spend. In the
same price range, for pure rendering speed a PC is going to beat both
out, because you can get other cheap components, and dual PIIs or
something. If your comparing the best PC to the best sun or SGI, a 64
R10k SGI Oynx2 Reality Monster can't be beat by anything other than a
Cray.
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I'm thinking about;
Sun Ultra 10 or 30, with Creater 3D possibly Elite 3D, UltraSPARC 300MHz
(possible *2 CPU).
With a dual PII 300Mhz, etc.
Neil
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In article <35BAC36C.3D0F4654@kjopen.globalnet.co.uk> , Nei### [at] kjopen globalnetcouk
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>I'm thinking about;
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>Sun Ultra 10 or 30, with Creater 3D possibly Elite 3D, UltraSPARC 300MHz
>(possible *2 CPU).
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>With a dual PII 300Mhz, etc.
>
>Neil
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Just remember, the official POV-Ray rendering speed will not increase with two CPUs!
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom
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> Just remember, the official POV-Ray rendering speed will not increase with two CPUs!
>
> Thorsten
So does that mean, the faster the CPU (higher MHZ) the faster the rendering time ?
Neil
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I mean
one 333MHz CPU would render faster than
two 300MHz CPU's ?
Neil
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Nei### [at] kjopenglobalnetcouk wrote:
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> Which platform would have the faster rendering times,
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> A Sun Workstation (or SGI machine)
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> or
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> A Top end PC
I think I heard once that POV supports network-based rendering (i.e.
mulitiple machines chugging away). If I'm right, then I think any group
of fast machines would be adequate.
Josh
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Nei### [at] kjopenglobalnetcouk wrote in message
<35BAD03F.69A60413@kjopen.globalnet.co.uk>...
>I mean
> one 333MHz CPU would render faster than
> two 300MHz CPU's ?
>
>Neil
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At least on a WinNT machine, because it does not have native support for
multi processing, and the
POV-Ray code doesn't support it natively either (I think, someone correct me
if I'm wrong).
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With a multiprocessor machine, however, if you have the memory
to handle two jobs, then simply run two instances of POVRAY,
partitioning the image into segments using +SR and +ER.
I'll take the pair of 300MHz machines... with 256MB of memory to handle
the two jobs.
Dan
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http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/
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In article <35BACF75.B48BCB21@kjopen.globalnet.co.uk> , Nei### [at] kjopenglobalnetcouk
wrote:
>So does that mean, the faster the CPU (higher MHZ) the faster the rendering time ?
Well, MHz is not all, but a single Pentium-II 400 MHz will be faster than any dual
P-II if you use one POV-Ray thread (of course you can start it more than once and the
operating system (WinNT!) should make POV-Ray use the second CPU, but I never did it -
I don't have a dual CPU machine).
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom
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