[Radiance-general] The sub-4K second benchmark barrier...

[James Lee]

On 01/11/06, 17:40:02, Rob Guglielmetti <rpg at rumblestrip.org> wrote 
regarding [Radiance-general] The sub-4K second benchmark barrier...:

> ...has been broken!

> That's right, people.  One of the beloved render farm machines at my
> office just turned in a sub-4K second timing on the Mark Stock Radiance
> benchmark scene.  SSSssssssss!


I did 3857.2 last week when testing my 3.8 Blastwave packages.  That
with "only" a 2193 Mhz chip.  Must send the results off.

Solaris 10.  Sun Studio 11 compiler.  Opteron at 2193MHz.
Generic package with isaexec arch parts.  This still shows 3.7.2 but
see:
    http://ww.blastwave.org/pacakges/radiance



>  I also
> wonder how much of the speedup is attributable to the use of the new
> official release of Radiance 3.8.

3.8 is slightly faster but I didn't spend long comparing.  I did a
test because I wanted to understand if the improvement on my previous
score was due to 3.8 or my newer compiler.  The answer is the Sun
Studio 11 compiler is much better.




James.