POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Cluster with two processor system : Re: Cluster with two processor system Server Time
19 Nov 2024 07:29:36 EST (-0500)
  Re: Cluster with two processor system  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 4 Apr 2002 21:42:42
Message: <chrishuff-A8B70A.21440004042002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3cacedb7$1@news.povray.org>,
 "N Shomber" <nsh### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> I hope it actually only took 1:45 seconds - the correct time for a 1.7Ghz to
> complete because 2 minutes is almost exactly a 1.5Ghz Athlon based on my
> time of 2:15 with a 1.333 Ghz Athlon.

You make the assumption that the rendering time decreases linearly as 
processor speed increases, it doesn't. There are many other factors: 
design differences in the 1.7GHz chip compared to your 1.33GHz, cache, 
system bus, RAM, OS, CPU use by other processes...

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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