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Granted it's not practical to run POV on a PS2, but I wanted to see how
long it took, like running the benchmark on a DEC MicroVax running
NetBSD just for yucks. Whereas the bulk of POV users are probably
386-based Linux or Windows, with some Mac folks (of whom I'm one), it's
interesting to see people using it in any capacity on different
hardware. In other words, instead of "where do you use POV? Space,
Antartica, etc.", it's "What do you use?"
In article <411ce45a$1@news.povray.org>,
Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] free fr> wrote:
> > I've got Povray running on a
> > Sony PS2 running Linux....doing the benchmark.pov file took more than
> > two weeks before it crashed.
>
> Ooops :-)
>
> Considering how cheap is a relatively fast PC hardware nowadays,
> I would strongly recommand to forget the PS2... For instance, benchmark.ini
> runs (succesfully) in about 35 minutes on an simple Athlon XP 2400+ or an
> Intel P4 2.6 GHz. Going to a 64-bit compile (on Athlon64/Opteron machine)
> is also known to give an interesting speedup (compared to the 32-bit version
> ran on the same machine) but that's a different budget.
>
> I never tried POV on a Cray and I won't. Crays are interesting only
> for highly parallelized/vectorized jobs (even that is changing). POV-Ray is
> not yet parallalized as of version 3.6 (unofficial MPI/PVM patches for 3.5
> introduce some severe limitations or even problems).
>
> You should probably also forget about "older" architectures such as
> SGI Mips or Sun Sparc. The former were designed for CAD, the second IIRC
> were most suited as servers. None are good with floating-point intensive
> applications.
>
> DEC (now Compaq now HP) could be worth a try; at least an EV6
> machine was, back in 2000, much faster than a recent PC. But it's far
> too expensive IMO.
>
> Honestly, prefer a good PC or Mac for running POV. It's not
> by chance there is official support for these architectures.
>
> - NC
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