[Radiance-general] Re: What platforms are people using for Radiance?

[R Fritz]

It's probably not possible to implement a virtual machine that's as  
fast as native operation without extensive support from the processor  
vendor. I think only IBM does this at this time, in their large-scale  
server systems. OK, thanks.

Randolph

On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Jack de Valpine wrote:

> Hi Andy and Randolph,
>
> Although I have not tested it myself, I have heard others complain  
> that Virtual PC is slow. We have been pleased with VMWare, however  
> we are not using the vms to run actual simulations....
>
> -Jack
>
> Andy Stone wrote:
>>
>> Hi Randolph,
>>
>> I’m currently running RADIANCE on Cygwin, but previously used MS  
>> Services for Unix.  I ran into a few weird compatibility type  
>> problems with SFU (I don’t remember the specifics now) and in the  
>> end decided to switch to Cygwin because it seems to be better  
>> supported (for other Unix type tools as well as for RADIANCE).
>>
>> I’ve also previously made a comparison between Linux (Suse) running  
>> as a virtual machine under windows (using MS Virtual PC) and  
>> Cygwin.  Using the test case from Mark Stock’s benchmark page I  
>> found that Cygwin was a bit faster than the virtual PC (something  
>> like 15-20% faster) – at least on my specific PC for that specific  
>> test case.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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