"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > On 30/04/16 07:27, jhu wrote:
> > > All the parts finally arrived. This thing is a beast! The Povray 3.7.0 benchmark
> > > finishes in 56 seconds. The thing idles at 92 watts and pulls 310 watts fully
> > > loaded. Not bad at all.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Any special optimisation of the PoV compile or are you using the vanilla
> > version?
> >
> > John
> > --
> > Protect the Earth
> > It was not given to you by your parents
> > You hold it in trust for your children
>
> This is from the Debian repository.

Hi, I'm French and I've been playing with POV since the early 90's, and I've
just finished building a dual Xeon system based on thoses cheap chips found on
eBay ($135 for both... amazing...). I used an Asus Z9PA-D8 motherboard, a couple
of Cooler Master Hyper 212X, 32 Gb of regulard UDIMM DDR3 1600 from Crucial

POV, the result is below:

CPU time used: kernel 0.80 seconds, user 1992.38 seconds, total 1993.17 seconds.
Elapsed time 69.37 seconds, CPU vs elapsed time ratio 28.73.
Render averaged 3778.82 PPS (131.52 PPS CPU time) over 262144 pixels using 32
thread(s).

so, that's 3778.82 PPS average. Not bad I think.

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"IronMan" <str### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm French and I've been playing with POV since the early 90's, and I've
> just finished building a dual Xeon system based on thoses cheap chips found on
> eBay ($135 for both... amazing...). I used an Asus Z9PA-D8 motherboard, a couple
> of Cooler Master Hyper 212X, 32 Gb of regulard UDIMM DDR3 1600 from Crucial

> POV, the result is below:
>
> CPU time used: kernel 0.80 seconds, user 1992.38 seconds, total 1993.17 seconds.
> Elapsed time 69.37 seconds, CPU vs elapsed time ratio 28.73.
> Render averaged 3778.82 PPS (131.52 PPS CPU time) over 262144 pixels using 32
> thread(s).
>
> so, that's 3778.82 PPS average. Not bad I think.

Welcome to the club! What OS are you using?

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"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "IronMan" <str### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I'm French and I've been playing with POV since the early 90's, and I've
> > just finished building a dual Xeon system based on thoses cheap chips found on
> > eBay ($135 for both... amazing...). I used an Asus Z9PA-D8 motherboard, a couple
> > of Cooler Master Hyper 212X, 32 Gb of regulard UDIMM DDR3 1600 from Crucial

> > POV, the result is below:
> >
> > CPU time used: kernel 0.80 seconds, user 1992.38 seconds, total 1993.17 seconds.
> > Elapsed time 69.37 seconds, CPU vs elapsed time ratio 28.73.
> > Render averaged 3778.82 PPS (131.52 PPS CPU time) over 262144 pixels using 32
> > thread(s).
> >
> > so, that's 3778.82 PPS average. Not bad I think.
>
> Welcome to the club! What OS are you using?

I'm currently using Windows 10 Pro x64. I guess I could squeeze a little more
juice using Linux. Windows 10 is improved though, as performance is better with
HT turned on than with it turned off. I think this was not always the case in
the past with older version of windows. Some people seem to render the bench in
Povray 10 seconds faster under linux.
But, hey, I already get almost 100.000 MB/s memory bandwidth up from 24.000 on
an i7 3770K@4 Ghz, so I guess for this kind of money, the game was worth the
candle!
I remember rendering some scenes back in 1994 on a 386DX without a math
coprocessor, that would litterally take ages, now, the same scene renders in
just 2 seconds on the Dual Xeon rig... yep, we've come a long way...  ;-)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJQ5Q--8o4

The video is looped 10 times from the original video which consists of 173
frames. The rendering took about 1 hour on a c4.8xlarge / Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3
compute instance with 40 threads. Current EC2 instance price (as of 2016-05-05):
$1.675 per hour.

Setup scripts for POV-Ray 3.7 on an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 14.04:
https://github.com/bullet-physics-playground/bpp/issues/8

Here's some screen recordings of my recent experiments with Bullet Physics
Playground:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUSo1e9c9Bg&index=2&list=PL-OhsevLGGI2bFpOqzqnWsGILh9a5YkDr

If you have some clock cycles left, please contact me via mail, so we can create
more POV animations.

The Bullet Physics Playground: https://github.com/bullet-physics-playground

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"Koppi" <jak### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJQ5Q--8o4
>

Here's a quick desktop capture during the trace in the clouds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8a588YhQk

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"Koppi" <jak### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJQ5Q--8o4
>

Here's another desktop capture while uploading the Video from Amazon EC2 to
YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyRjMQ0-Xik

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Just tried compiling Povray with this thing. It takes 30 seconds!

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On 05/04/2016 08:39 PM, Koppi wrote:
>

>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJQ5Q--8o4
>
> The video is looped 10 times from the original video which consists of 173
> frames. The rendering took about 1 hour on a c4.8xlarge / Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3
> compute instance with 40 threads. Current EC2 instance price (as of 2016-05-05):
> $1.675 per hour.
>
> Setup scripts for POV-Ray 3.7 on an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 14.04:
> https://github.com/bullet-physics-playground/bpp/issues/8
>
> Here's some screen recordings of my recent experiments with Bullet Physics
> Playground:
>
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUSo1e9c9Bg&index=2&list=PL-OhsevLGGI2bFpOqzqnWsGILh9a5YkDr
>
> If you have some clock cycles left, please contact me via mail, so we can create
> more POV animations.
>
> The Bullet Physics Playground: https://github.com/bullet-physics-playground
>
>
>
Thanks much Jakob for putting together & posting all this information!

I have not to date done too much with animation, but I do want to try 
POV-Ray rendering on Amazon's cloud services in the near future.

I'm also very interested in Bullet Physics, but I have to admit to 
myself I have too many projects active at the moment to pick that one up 
just now... :-) Hopefully later this summer.

Bill P.

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William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> I'm also very interested in Bullet Physics, but I have to admit to
> myself I have too many projects active at the moment to pick that one up
> just now... :-) Hopefully later this summer.

Bill, if you don't have any time for BPP - all I need is shell access
to one of those big irons ;-) - preferred packages:

 $ sudo apt-get install screen povray ffmpeg make

My ssh public key is at https://github.com/koppi.keys

Here's my latest experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwdbtfiEo0A

I would love to do an animation of this marble run with POV-Ray :-)

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On 05/06/2016 11:20 AM, Koppi wrote:
>
>
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> I'm also very interested in Bullet Physics, but I have to admit to
>> myself I have too many projects active at the moment to pick that one up
>> just now... :-) Hopefully later this summer.
>
> Bill, if you don't have any time for BPP - all I need is shell access
> to one of those big irons ;-) - preferred packages:
>
>   $ sudo apt-get install screen povray ffmpeg make
>
> My ssh public key is at https://github.com/koppi.keys
>
> Here's my latest experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwdbtfiEo0A
>
> I would love to do an animation of this marble run with POV-Ray :-)
>
>
>
>
>
Hi Jakob,

Sorry, I don't have a big machine like that discussed here running at 
the moment.

I jumped on this thread because my render machine is down and I was 
thinking of financially stretching for the used dual xeon, 12 core, 24 
thread machine by the same path others here have taken - rather than 
just fixing my broken 4 core render machine.

Presently, I'll be stretching for car repairs instead. :-(

Bill P.

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