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Revision: 75968
          http://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/75968
Author:   starseeker
Date:     2020-05-28 20:20:54 +0000 (Thu, 28 May 2020)
Log Message:
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It will need considerably more updating to be valid, but get the benchmark.tr 
file into Docbook via doclifter and building.

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    brlcad/trunk/doc/CMakeLists.txt
    brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man5/CMakeLists.txt

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    brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man5/benchmark.xml

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    brlcad/trunk/doc/benchmark.tr

Modified: brlcad/trunk/doc/CMakeLists.txt
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--- brlcad/trunk/doc/CMakeLists.txt     2020-05-28 19:35:09 UTC (rev 75967)
+++ brlcad/trunk/doc/CMakeLists.txt     2020-05-28 20:20:54 UTC (rev 75968)
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
   TODO.BREP
   TODO.shaded_displays
   archer_ack.txt
-  benchmark.tr
   bu_opt_design_notes.txt
   brep.txt
   BRL-CAD.bib

Deleted: brlcad/trunk/doc/benchmark.tr
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--- brlcad/trunk/doc/benchmark.tr       2020-05-28 19:35:09 UTC (rev 75967)
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-.\" $Header$
-.\" groff -t -ms -X benchmark.tr
-.\" groff -t -ms benchmark.tr | print-postscript
-.\"
-.\"  sort '-t       ' +7nr -8
-.de BR
-\fB\\$1\fR\\$2
-..
-.TL
-The BRL-CAD Benchmark Suite
-.AU
-Michael John Muuss
-.AU
-Charles M. Kennedy
-.AU
-Lee A. Butler
-.AI
-The U.S. Army Research Laboratory
-.PP
-This document describes the BRL-CAD Benchmark Suite Methodology, and
-the Ray-Tracing Figure of Merit (RTFM) used to judge the computational
-performance of different computer systems.
-.PP
-The core of the test is the \fBrt\fR ray-tracing program.  The results
-for each processor are determined by running a benchmark test of the
-RT ray-tracing program on each of the sample databases provided.  The
-\fBrt\fR program requires a binary database for input ("db/xxx.g"),
-and produces a binary image as output ("bench/xxx.pix"), along with a
-log file ("bench/xxx.log").  Each run will produce a 512x512x24 bit
-color shaded image in a "bench/xxx.pix" file, and a run log in
-"bench/xxx.log".  Reference copies of the images are provided as
-"pix/xxx.pix" and "pix/xxx.log".  The sample databases provided are
-processed in order of increasing difficulty, and each produces a
-colorful image.  In each picture there are two light sources; the
-primary source is located near the center of the model (the white
-ball), and the secondary light source is located at the "eye"
-position.
-.NH 1
-The Benchmark Models
-.LP
-moss.g -- This is a simple model, containing a yellow torus, a green
-ellipsoid, a bluish cube, a pink truncated (distorted) cone, all
-sitting on a blue plate.  Note the shadowing, and "specular splash".
-.sp
-world.g -- The same model as moss.g, but with various rendering
-features enabled.  The model is enclosed in a hollow cloud sphere.
-The plate is a mirror, the egg is crystal, the box has a debugging
-texture map applied.
-.sp
-star.g -- A familiar sight to Star Trek fans; a low-detail exterior of
-the ship "Enterprise".  The hull is white, with some other structures
-in other colors.  The small red object in the foreground is the
-shuttlecraft Galileo, to scale.
-.sp
-bldg391.g -- An exploded view of a two-story imaginary computer site,
-including various walls, red stairways, green disk drives, etc.  The
-lower floor is a mirror, the upper floor is glass.
-.sp
-m35.g -- A truck.
-.sp
-sphflake.g -- A sphereflake.
-.NH 1
-MACHINE INDEPENDENCE
-.PP
-To make the benchmark distribution machine independent, the databases
-are provided in an ASCII format in the "db" directory, and
-ascii-to-binary converters are provided in the "conv" directory.  The
-setup command "\fBcake benchmark\fR" (see the document \fIInstalling
-the BRL-CAD Package\fR) will automatically compile and run the
-converters.
-.PP
-If you are running this benchmark on a non-UNIX machine that has
-difficulty writing binary streams, change the "-o file.pix" flag to
-"-O file.a_pix" and RT will write an ASCII form directly.  For more
-discussion, consult the doc/pix.5 and conv/asc2pix.1 manual pages.
-.PP
-The reference images are distributed in binary BRL-CAD
-.BR pix (5)
-format.  Earlier releases distributed the reference images in the
-portable ASCII form, and then converted them to the binary form.  This
-consumed a significant amount of extra storage on UNIX machines, so
-this practice was discontinued.  It is assumed that anyone attempting
-to benchmark a system that can not read pure binary files will at
-least have access to a UNIX system.  That UNIX system can be used to
-convert the reference images to the portable ASCII form with the
-.BR pix2asc (1)
-tool, and then those images may be sent to the machine under test.
-.PP
-Information about modifying the benchmark to run on a particular
-system may be found in the document \fIInstalling the BRL-CAD
-Package\fR.  For a detailed explanation of various hardware specific
-modifications necessary to take advantage of parallel processing, see
-the document \fIWorkstations, Networking, Distributed Graphics, and
-Parallel Processing\fR.  Implementations for several different types
-of hardware in use at ARL are included.
-.PP
-If you encounter difficulty with running the benchmark, you might wish
-to build the full BRL-CAD package, to take advantage of the image
-tools in determining the nature of the problem.  For example, one
-system suffered from a compiler bug that made TGC solids vanish, while
-another system had difficulties with the light visibility
-calculations.
-.NH 1
-OBTAINING CORRECT RESULTS
-.PP
-The benchmark timings are not considered valid unless the correct
-results are given.  Make sure that the answers match the reference
-files to within plus-or-minus one in each color (see pixdiff(1)).
-Slight variations in the calculated pixels are generally attributable
-to variations in floating point precision.  You may wish to compare
-the execution times and log file remarks from your tests (in the
-"bench/xxx.log" files) with the VAX-11/780 (with hardware FPA) times
-which are given in the "pix/xxx.log" files.  The log file for sphflake
-has yet to be run on the same system, causing weighted results.  It's
-still useful and informative, however, for deriving performance
-statistics.  The reference images are also located in the "pix/"
-directory.
-.PP
-For example, if you are running the benchmark on a Cray XMP, the
-world.pix and bldg391.pix images will have a single byte in the blue
-channel off by 1, out in the cloud background.  This is not to be
-considered an error.
-.NH 1
-BENCHMARK IMAGE DISPLAY
-.PP
-If you have a suitable framebuffer, you may wish to display the images
-generated by the benchmark, and compare them to the reference images.
-This section assumes that you have successfully compiled the full set
-of BRL-CAD software, not just the benchmark portion.  Programs for
-dealing with images are in the "util" directory.  To display a
-\fBpix\fR(5) file on a framebuffer, set environment variable FB_FILE
-(see \fBbrlcad\fR(1) for details), and run \fBpix-fb\fR.  Note that by
-leaving FB_FILE unset, your default display will be used.
-.sp
-.nf
-.ft B
-       cd bench
-       pix-fb moss.pix
-.ft R
-.fi
-.sp
-If the images computed on your machine do not match the reference
-images, the program "util/pixdiff" will compute a pix file that will
-highlight the differences for you, and report a summary of bytes
-equal, off-by-1, and off-by-many, e.g.,
-.sp
-.ft B
-       pixdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix \(or pix-fb
-.ft R
-.fi
-.sp
-For a display of the relative magnitude of the differences at each
-pixel, use "util/bwdiff" instead, e.g.,
-.sp
-.nf
-.ft B
-       bwdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix \(or pix-fb
-.ft R
-or
-.ft B
-       bwdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix \(or \\
-       bwmod -s 128 -m 4 -a 128 \(or pix-fb
-.ft R
-.fi
-.sp
-and for statistics on the differences, use
-.sp
-.ft B
-       bwdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix \(or pixstat
-.ft R
-.ne 8i
-.NH 1
-THE COMPETITION
-.PP
-The full benchmark takes about 9 CPU hours on a VAX-11/780, so you
-should scale your expectations accordingly.
-.PP
-Here is a sampling of some systems that have been tested, with as much
-information about the configuration as could be obtained.  Some
-systems have a great many options for small things that can affect
-performance, such as memory interleaving.
-.LP
-.TS
-center box;
-l l.
-System Name    Configuration
-_      _
-axposf DEC Alpha 4000/710, 256M, OSF/1 V3.0 \(dg
-ex-art Pentium-P90, 16MB, 256K cache, BSD/OS 2.0,
-hawks  486DX/33, 24MB, 256K cache, BSD/OS 2.0
-orac   486/100, 20MB, No cache, BSD/OS 2.0 (laptop)
-pk     Cray C90, C916/161024, UNICOS 8.0.2.4
-vapor  SGI, 18* 75 MHz R8000 IP21, 1024M RAM 8-way, Irix 6.0
-vblt   66 MHz 486DX2/66, 16M RAM, Linux 1.1.73
-vgr    DEC VAX-11/780 w/FPA, 64M RAM, 4.3 BSD
-vision Sun-3/280 w/68881 FPA, 16M RAM, SunOS 4.1.1
-voyage SGI, 4* 25 MHz R3000 IP7, 56M RAM, Irix 4.0.1
-whiz   SGI Ingido**2, 100 MHz IP22, 96M RAM, Irix 5.2
-waffle SGI, 4* 25 MHz R3000 IP7, 64M RAM, Irix 4.0.5 (heavy network use)
-warp   Sun SPARCstation 5, 32M RAM, SunOS 4.1.4
-wax    SGI, 24* 150 MHz R4400 IP19, 1024M RAM 4-way, Irix 5.2
-wilson SGI, 8* 100 MHz R4400 IP19, 1024M RAM 8-way, Irix 5.2
-wilted Sun-4/25 ELC, 16M RAM, SunOS 4.1.1
-wimp   33 MHz 386DX/33 w/387, 256k cache, 16M RAM, BSDI 2.0beta2
-wimpy  Sun SS10BSX-GX, 2* 50 MHz SuperSPARC, 64M RAM, SunOS 5.4
-wizard SGI Ingido**2, 150 MHz IP22, 96M RAM, Irix 5.3
-.TE
-\(dg The Alpha was heavily loaded while the benchmark was being run.
-DEC requires us to show the load average at the time:
-.br
-03:28  up 18 days, 10:59,  7 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.08
-.NH 1
-BENCHMARK RESULTS
-.PP
-In the tradition of Dongarra, the Rays/sec figure is considered the
-"RT Figure of Merit" (RTFM).  Note that the RTFM can only be compared
-between different runs on the \fIsame\fR database; it is not
-meaningful to compare RTFM numbers between different databases. The
-Rays/sec number for a multi-processor machine is for "aggregate CPU
-cluster seconds", rather than rays/total CPU seconds (which remains
-fairly constant on good parallel machines).
-.PP
-The statistics are recorded in an easily understood format, with all
-results for a particular configuration listed on a single line.  The
-numbers reported are the rays/sec (RTFM) figure.  Entries denoted with
-a dagger ("\(dg") produced incorrect results.  Entries denoted with a
-dash ("-") were not available and should be considered differently
-than those entries with a dagger.  Generally the results are not
-available because time constraints prevented running the complete set
-of databases.
-.fi
-.br
-.ne 8i
-.NH 1
-RELEASE 4.4 STATISTICS (4-Jan-1995)
-.PP
-There is very little difference in RTFM numbers between Release 4.0
-and Release 4.4, so they can be usefully compared.  In some cases the
-4.4 performance is slower due to the use of shared libraries.  For
-example "vision" dropped from 1.33 to 1.22 due to the shared
-libraries.  For most users reducing the disk consumption from 300
-MBytes to 30 MBytes makes this a reasonable tradeoff.  However, for
-the best performance, use non-shared libraries.
-.LP
-.TS H
-expand box;
-l | n n n n n | n | l.
-H/W    Moss    World   Star    Bldg    M35     Mean    S/W Notes
-_
-.TH
-vapor  810.91  1091.39 1012.63 1027.25 1092.85 1007    -P18 static
-vapor  773.8   1038.7  979.49  970.91  1036.62 959.9   -P17
-vapor  732.85  1021.69 968.93  922.62  1024.15 934.04  -P18 (SW lock)
-wax    769.38  940.83  953.36  924.7   1050.14 927.68  -P24
-vapor  730.17  994.97  934.43  917.1   987.83  912.9   -P16
-wax    725.26  957.68  927.61  932.67  992.75  907.19  -P24
-wax    756.95  915.96  940.43  903.45  966.09  896.57  -P23
-vapor  686.8   939.63  897.72  884.39  927.16  867.14  -P15
-wax    691.18  853.75  887.17  859.32  933.41  844.96  -P21
-wax    724.73  683.08  890.87  900.82  939.31  827.76  -P22
-vapor  645.32  881.18  843.23  801.41  859.26  806.08  -P14
-wax    637.28  757.74  820.21  871.37  877.6   792.84  -P20
-vapor  608.12  835.84  795.36  759.95  806.32  761.11  -P13
-_
-wax    606.98  784.3   754.46  799.95  794.52  748.04  -P19
-wax    590.16  758.23  794.06  794.52  757.79  738.95  -P18
-wax    579.29  722.35  787.55  720.26  754.65  712.82  -P17
-vapor  571.14  783.72  740.47  697.24  746.72  707.85  -P12
-wax    553.72  697.1   744.21  663.61  723.03  676.33  -P16
-vapor  534.85  716.58  685.87  656.25  685.77  655.86  -P11
-wax    519.01  655.57  690.95  651.9   663.92  636.27  -P15
-wax    475.88  637.33  665.38  608.31  653.99  608.17  -P14
-vapor  499.46  663.26  633.48  614.58  624.34  607.02  -P10
-wax    449.16  591.54  616.21  590.59  614.25  572.35  -P13
-vapor  463.3   598.34  575.07  555.62  560.89  550.64  -P9
-wax    424.71  556.8   595.02  521.63  538.78  527.38  -P12
-vapor  424.89  534.5   509.85  497.63  503.99  494.17  -P8
-wax    391.66  490.63  545.28  488.57  508.96  485.02  -P11
-wax    315.45  472.03  525.47  442.37  461.44  443.35  -P10
-vapor  381.1   467.67  440.13  425.57  442.04  431.3   -P7
-wax    309.35  426.37  386.11  417.85  434.96  394.92  -P9
-vapor  336.55  392.2   390.72  373.92  380.03  374.68  -P6
-_
-wax    307.6   361.32  396.07  380.17  380.74  365.18  -P8
-wax    245.87  332.33  362.5   338.62  331.39  322.14  -P7
-vapor  288.45  327.78  328.76  314.54  320.16  315.93  -P5
-wax    254.82  255.29  299.93  302.08  256.54  273.73  -P6
-wilson 223.01  265.17  287.8   262.19  269.62  261.55  -P8
-vapor  240.6   269.93  266.46  253.99  259.05  258     -P4
-wax    215.96  231.65  221.78  248.63  221.45  227.89  -P5
-wax    177.94  185.27  213.74  201.64  197.27  195.17  -P4
-vapor  187.58  198.84  202.28  191.94  194.74  195.07  -P3
-wax    120.4   138.01  162.12  159.36  141.33  144.24  -P3
-vapor  130.61  140.04  134.88  129.38  129.78  132.93  -P2
-wax    100.83  102.09  111.12  87.26   98.62   99.98   -P2
-wimpy  99.10   95.78   92.15   97.51   96.65   96.23   -P2
-wimpy  82.14   93.60   92.17   103.59  82.22   90.74   -P2
-_
-axposf 81.05   82.27   86.72   84.36   79.28   82.73   -P1
-vapor  79.68   77.7    73.89   71.38   70.06   74.54   -P1 static
-vapor  69.34   70.14   67.52   65.55   66.69   67.84   -P1 shared
-wizard 63.8    55.86   68.97   73.21   61.56   64.68
-wax    62.28   58.58   65.24   67.39   59.31   62.56   -P1
-wax    59.08   56.06   61.45   64.4    56.11   59.42   -P1
-voyage 52.78   55.44   58.19   58.03   52.41   55.37   -P4
-pk     64.89   55.71   48.01   49.50   53.43   54.30   -P1
-waffle 38.56   47.63   62.36   59.62   51.20   51.87   -P4
-wimpy  50.17   48.82   50.46   55.12   49.27   50.76   -P1
-wimpy  47.80   43.23   51.37   54.10   46.23   48.54   -P1
-weber  46.53   43.45   50.88   50.33   46.03   47.44   -P1
-wilson 41.16   39.54   45.98   42.93   34.82   40.88   -P1
-whiz   36.25   31.08   37.21   39.62   36.98   36.22
-warp   19.88   21.33   23.71   24.19   22.60   22.34
-ex-art 16.89   18.54   22.98   26.97   25.57   22.19
-orac   7.57    8.23    10.72   12.43   11.30   10.05
-wilted 9.58    9.53    10.66   10.53   9.87    10.03
-hawks  3.64    4.17    5.71    6.90    6.23    5.33
-vblt   4.85    4.89    5.29    5.24    4.90    5.03
-wimp   1.16    1.34    1.82    2.25    2.06    1.72
-vision 1.07    1.23    1.23    1.31    1.26    1.22    -P1
-vgr    1.0     1.0     1.0     1.0     1.0     1.0
-.TE
-.br
-.ne 8i
-.NH 1
-THE OLD COMPETITION
-.PP
-These are the definitions for systems measured in previous tests.
-.LP
-.TS
-center box;
-l l.
-System Name    Configuration
-_      _
-alliant        Alliant FX/8 (8 CEs, 9 IPs, 64 Mbytes), Concentrix 3.0
-amber  HP 9000/720, 32 MB memory
-amsaa-seer     Gould PN 9080, w/MACCs, UTX 2.0, 4x4Mb mem boards
-ardec-3        Pyramid 90Mx, Dual-CPU, OSx 2.5, 16 Mbytes
-bob    Cray-2, SN 2009, 4.3ns clock
-cor3   Pyramid MIS-12T/3, OSx 192
-patton Cray X-MP/48, SN213, UNICOS 5.0, 8.5ns clock
-uy1    Cray Y-MP8/2128, UNICOS 5.1.11
-shpcrc2        IBM RS/6000, AIX 3.1
-slc1   Macintosh II, 68020, 68881, AUX 1.1, GCC 1.39
-spark  Gould PN 9050, no MACC, UTX 2.0, 2x4Mb mem boards
-sws2   Convex C120, 16 Mbytes, Convex Unix 6.2.32.2
-vector Alliant FX/80 (8 ACEs, 6 IPs, 32 Mbytes), Concentrix
-venom  Alliant FX/8 (8 CEs, 6 IPs, 32 Mbytes), Concentrix
-vgr    VAX 780, FPA, 4.3 BSD
-virus  Sun-3/50, 15 Mhz clock, 12 Mhz 68881, Sun UNIX 3.2
-vista  SGI 3030, w/FP chip, UNIX release 3.5
-vmb    Gould PN 9080, no MACCs, UTX 2.0, 12x1Mb mem boards
-vhs    Silicon Graphics 4D/60T, 12.5 Mhz clock 16 MB memory
-ovoyage        Silicon Graphics 4D/120, 16.7 Mhz clock 16 MB memory
-taylor Silicon Graphics 4D/220, 25 Mhz clock 16 MB memory
-crim   Silicon Graphics 4DCRIMS 50Mhz clock 128 MB memory
-wiltse Silicon Graphics 4D R4000 50Mhz clock
-c1east T{
-Convex C1 XP (2 IOPs, 4 Multibus, 64 Mbytes),
-S/W 6.0.1.12
-T}
-elxsi-gnu      Elxsi 6420, BSD 4.2 16 MB
-elxsi-gnuy     Elxsi 6420, Sys Vr2, 16MB
-elxsi-m1       Elxsi 6410, BSD 4.2 16 MB
-hep    Denelcor HEP, 4 PEMs
-indigo SGI Iris 3030, FPA, GL2-W3.5
-mseries        T{
-MIPS Mseries, Release 0.6, UMIPS 2.1, 16 MB of R2350 RAM.
-R2000 CPU rev 5.0, R2010 FP rev 2.0
-T}
-multiflow      Multiflow Trace 7/200 (PRELIMINARY)
-nova   T{
-Sun SPARCserver 490, 32 Mb, 33 MHz clock, 33 MHz TI 8847 FPU, SunOS 4.1.1B
-T}
-rh2    Tektronix, Motorola 88000
-snm2   Cray 1-M, SN2, UNICOS 2.0
-sws1   Convex C1, ConvexOS 9.1 48MB memory
-tek4132        Tektronix 4132, 32082 fpp, UTek 2.3
-utah-gr        VAX 785, FPA, 4.3 BSD
-utah-cs        VAX 8600, FPA, 4.3 BSD
-veto   Sun 4/260 32MB memory Sun UNIX 4.0.3
-violet VaxStationII GPX, Ultrix 1.2
-vision Sun-3/280, 16 MB memory
-vortac Sun-3/160, 16.67 Mhz clock, 12 Mhz 68881, Sun 3.2
-walrus Silicon Graphics 4D/280 25 Mhz clock 64 MB memory Irix 3.3.1
-whiz   Silicon Graphics 4D/240 25 Mhz clock 56 MB memory Irix 3.3.1
-whisper        Sun SPARCStation 1+
-wilted Sun SPARCstation ELC , Diskless, 12MB memory Sun UNIX 4.1.1
-worm   Silicon Graphics 4D/280 25 Mhz clock 64 MB memory Irix 3.3.1
-.TE
-.br
-.ne 8i
-.NH 1
-OLD BENCHMARK RESULTS
-.PP
-These are the results of previous benchmarks.
-.NH 1
-RELEASE 1.20 STATISTICS (12-Feb-1987)
-.LP
-.TS H
-expand box;
-l l | n n n n | n | l.
-A/*    H/W     Moss    World   Star    Bldg    Mean    S/W Notes
-_
-.TH
-Rays   tek4132 80.5    44.0    33.9    31.4    ?       UTek 2.3
-*vgr   tek4132 0.72    0.69    0.62    0.62    ?
-_
-Rays   violet  107.7   57.3    44.7    44.1    ?       Ultrix 1.2
-*vgr   violet  0.96    0.90    0.81    0.87    ?
-_
-Rays   violet  119.0   63.0    50.0    46.3    ?       Ultrix 1.2,
-*vgr   violet  1.06    0.99    0.91    0.91    ?       w/fast_sqrt
-_
-Rays   vgr     112.1   63.6    55.0    50.7    ?       BSD 4.3
-*vgr   vgr     1.0     1.0     1.0     1.0     1.0
-_
-Rays   indigo  115.9   85.3    \(dg    101.8   ?       GL2-W3.5
-*vgr   indigo  1.03    1.34    \(dg    2.01    ?
-_
-Rays   vista   116.4   86.0    \(dg    102.3   ?       SGI UNIX 3.5
-*vgr   vista   1.04    1.35    \(dg    2.02    ?
-_
-Rays   virus   127.3   69.9    57.0    52.4    ?       Sun UNIX 3.2
-*vgr   virus   1.14    1.10    1.04    1.03    ?
-_
-Rays   vortac  148.2   81.0    65.8    60.7    ?       Sun UNIX 3.2
-*vgr   vortac  1.32    1.27    1.20    1.20    ?
-_
-Rays   utah-gr 191.8   105.8   89.9    86.5    ?       4.3 BSD
-*vgr   utah-gr 1.71    1.66    1.64    1.71    ?
-_
-Rays   ardec-3 -       68.4    57.2    -       ?       OSx 2.5
-*vgr   ardec-3 -       1.08    1.04    -       ?
-_
-Rays   elxsim1 380.5   232.2   204.8   189.3   ?       BSD 4.2
-*vgr   elxsim1 3.39    3.65    3.72    3.73    ?
-_
-Rays   spark   413.4   232.0   213.8   211.9   ?       UTX 2.0
-*vgr   spark   3.69    3.65    3.89    4.18    ?
-_
-Rays   vmb     413.9   233.4   210.6   212.6   ?       UTX 2.0
-*vgr   vmb     3.69    3.67    3.83    4.19    ?
-_
-Rays   c1east  454.8   252.4   205.6   192.3   ?       Convex UNIX 6.0.1.12,
-*vgr   c1east  4.06    3.97    3.74    3.80    ?       vanilla cc
-_
-Rays   seer    460.7   263.2   246.8   241.0   ?       UTX 2.0
-*vgr   seer    4.11    4.14    4.49    4.75    ?
-_
-Rays   venom   492.9   228.0   180.0   157.1   ?       Concentrix 2.0
-*vgr   venom   4.40    3.58    3.27    3.10    ?
-_
-Rays   elxgnu  520.6   315.4   264.4   242.0   ?       BSD 4.2
-*vgr   elxgnu  4.64    4.96    4.81    4.77    ?
-_
-Rays   utah-cs 521.1   292.1   237.4   216.2   ?       BSD 4.3
-*vgr   utah-cs 4.64    4.59    4.32    4.27    ?
-_
-Rays   c1east  521.6   285.3   230.5   215.1   ?       Convex UNIX 6.0.1.12,
-*vgr   c1east  4.66    4.49    4.20    4.24    ?       vc -O1 (scalar)
-_
-Rays   c1east  527.7   287.4   228.7   210.0   ?       Convex UNIX 6.0.1.12,
-*vgr   c1east  4.71    4.52    4.16    4.14    ?       vc -O2 (vector)
-_
-Rays   elxgnuy 644.7   349.3   264.6   242.1   ?       System Vr2
-*vgr   elxgnuy 5.75    5.49    4.81    4.77    ?
-_
-Rays   mflow   845.2   439.5   313.1   338.9   ?       (preliminary)
-*vgr   mflow   7.54    6.91    5.69    6.68    ?
-_
-Rays   venom   904.9   424.6   349.3   312.6   ?       Concentrix 2.0,
-*vgr   venom   8.07    6.68    6.35    6.17    ?       2 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   1375.5  650.0   523.4   459.9   ?       Concentrix 2.0,
-*vgr   venom   12.27   10.22   9.52    9.07    ?       3 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   1813.5  845.5   686.0   600.7   ?       Concentrix 2.0,
-*vgr   venom   16.17   13.29   12.47   11.85   ?       4 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   2364.1  1104.4  870.2   775.9   ?       Concentrix 2.0,
-*vgr   venom   21.08   17.36   15.82   15.3    ?       5 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   snm2    2492.9  -       -       -       ?       Unicos 2.0,
-*vgr   snm2    22.24   -       -       -       ?       no vectors, no optim
-_
-Rays   hep     2502.0  -       -       -       ?       1 PEM, npsw=10
-*vgr   hep     22.32   -       -       -       ?
-_
-Rays   venom   2811.4  1319.0  1051.6  918.0   ?       Concentrix 2.0,
-*vgr   venom   25.08   20.74   19.12   18.1    ?       6 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   3248.8  1533.0  1232.3  1065.9  ?       Concentrix 2.0,
-*vgr   venom   28.98   24.10   22.41   21.02   ?       7 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   patton  3453.3  1514.3  1271.2  1027.3  ?       COS V115BF2
-*vgr   patton  30.81   23.81   23.11   20.26   ?       1 CPU, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   3677.3  1724.2  1375.4  1208.4  ?       Concentrix 2.0,
-*vgr   venom   32.80   27.11   25.01   23.83   ?       8 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   alliant 3972.9  1840.0  1457.2  1266.4  ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   alliant 35.44   28.93   26.49   24.98   ?       8 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   hep     4055.9  -       -       -       ?       1 PEM, npsw=40
-*vgr   hep     36.18   -       -       -       ?
-_
-Rays   patton  6856.6  -       2522.2  -       ?       COS V115BF2
-*vgr   patton  61.16   -       45.86   -       ?       2 CPUs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   patton  10205.1 -       3749.9  -       ?       COS V115BF2
-*vgr   patton  91.04   -       68.18   -       ?       3 CPUs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   patton  13320.2 -       4955.6  -       ?       COS V115BF2
-*vgr   patton  118.82  -       90.10   -       ?       4 CPUs, no vectors
-.TE
-.NH 1
-RELEASE 2.3 STATISTICS (2-Nov-1987)
-.LP
-.TS H
-expand box;
-l l | n n n n | n | l.
-A/*    H/W     Moss    World   Star    Bldg    Mean    S/W Notes
-_
-.TH
-Rays   vgr     118.8   64.9    36.5    34.2    ?       BSD 4.3
-*vgr   vgr     1.0     1.0     1.0     1.0     1.0
-_
-Rays   vmb     375.4   218.6   186.4   196.2   ?       UTX 2.0
-*vgr   vmb     3.16    3.37    5.11    5.74    ?
-_
-Rays   venom   468.2   221.7   166.1   144.9   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   3.94    3.42    4.55    4.24    ?       1 CE, no vectors
-_
-Rays   sws2    471.9   258.4   202.5   186.4   ?       Convex Unix 6.2.32.2
-*vgr   sws2    3.97    3.98    5.55    5.45    ?       vanilla cc -O
-_
-Rays   vector  656.6   301.6   221.1   195.0   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  5.53    4.65    6.06    5.70    ?       1 ACE, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   827.3   424.0   327.1   287.9   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   6.96    6.53    8.96    8.42    ?       2 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   vhs     958.3   545.6   447.0   414.1   ?       -O2 optimization
-*vgr   vhs     8.07    9.41    12.25   12.11   ?
-_
-Rays   mseries 988.3   603.5   515.6   491.6   ?
-*vgr   mseries 8.32    9.29    14.13   14.37   ?
-_
-Rays   vector  1280.9  596.8   436.7   389.2   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  10.78   9.19    11.96   11.38   ?       2 ACEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   1288.7  630.6   486.4   428.0   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   10.85   9.72    13.33   12.51   ?       3 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   1732.9  853.2   645.4   560.1   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   14.59   13.15   17.68   16.38   ?       4 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   bob     1856.7  801.9   574.1   500.3   ?       1 CPU, UNICOS 3.0,
-*vgr   bob     15.63   12.36   15.73   15.62   ?       CC -O
-_
-Rays   vector  1952.1  881.7   647.6   578.8   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  16.43   13.58   17.74   16.92   ?       3 ACEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   2158.4  1031.3  797.3   703.1   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   18.17   15.89   21.84   20.56   ?       5 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   bob     2346.1  1127.4  751.0   677.2   ?       1 CPU UNICOS 4.0
-*vgr   bob     19.75   17.37   20.57   19.80   ?       CC -O
-_
-Rays   bob     2423.5  1045.7  719.3   609.4   ?       1 CPU, UNICOS 3.0,
-*vgr   bob     20.40   16.11   19.71   17.82   ?       VCC -O
-_
-Rays   vector  2546.2  1170.0  867.2   758.7   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  21.43   18.03   23.76   22.18   ?       4 ACEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   2633.7  1232.7  943.4   839.5   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   22.17   18.99   25.85   24.55   ?       6 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   2769.4  1393.3  1098.1  971.6   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   23.31   21.47   30.08   28.41   ?       7 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   vector  3131.2  1453.8  1065.8  945.4   ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  26.36   22.40   29.20   27.64   ?       5 ACEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   venom   3368.7  1605.3  1231.3  1095.11 ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   venom   28.36   24.73   33.73   32.02   ?       8 CEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   patton  3456.5  1691.8  1169.0  1043.6  ?       1 CPU, UNICOS 2.1
-*vgr   patton  29.10   26.07   32.03   30.51   ?       no vectors
-_
-Rays   vector  3686.4  1688.6  1259.1  1129.0  ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  31.03   26.02   34.49   33.01   ?       6 ACEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   vector  4140.3  1953.0  1463.3  1299.7  ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  34.85   30.09   40.09   38.00   ?       7 ACEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   bob     4641.7  2243.4  1498.2  1358.1  ?       2 CPUs, UNICOS 4.0
-*vgr   bob     39.07   34.57   41.05   39.71   ?       CC -O
-_
-Rays   vector  4712.2  2226.3  1649.0  1469.7  ?       Concentrix 3.0,
-*vgr   vector  39.66   34.30   45.18   42.97   ?       8 ACEs, no vectors
-_
-Rays   bob     6884.9  3422.4  2267.7  2034.3  ?       3 CPUs, UNICOS 4.0
-*vgr   bob     57.95   52.73   62.13   59.48   ?       CC -O
-_
-Rays   bob     9477.1  4484.7  2947.0  2832.9  ?       4 CPUs, UNICOS 4.0
-*vgr   bob     79.77   69.10   80.76   82.83   ?       CC -O
-.TE
-.NH 1
-RELEASE 3.0 STATISTICS (10-Oct-1988)
-.LP
-.TS H
-expand box;
-l l | n n n n | n | l.
-A/*    H/W     Moss    World   Star    Bldg    Mean    S/W Notes
-_
-.TH
-Abs    vgr     138.85  67.15   54.48   49.11   77.39   BSD 4.3
-*vgr   vgr     1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    w/FPA
-_
-Abs    sdm     163.56  76.98   59.79   52.51   88.21   SunOS 3.4
-*vgr   sdm     1.17    1.14    1.09    1.06    1.11    w/68881
-_
-Abs    ardec-3 417.95  212.43  177.01  160.73  242.03  9820, OSx 4.1
-*vgr   ardec-3 3.01    3.16    3.24    3.27    3.17    -P 1
-_
-Abs    spark   443.84  216.92  190.42  192.82  261.00  UTX 2.0
-*vgr   spark   3.19    3.23    3.49    3.92    3.37    no MACC
-_
-Abs    vmb     482.28  226.33  191.52  193.04  273.29  UTX 2.0
-*vgr   vmb     3.47    3.37    3.51    3.93    3.57    no MACC
-_
-Abs    sws2    546.23  255.45  183.10  163.85  287.15  Convex 6.2.32.2
-*vgr   sws2    3.93    3.80    3.36    3.33    3.60    /bin/cc
-_
-Abs    sun4    767.7   373.7   315.5   284.5   435.6   Unix 3.5
-*vgr   sun4    5.52    5.56    5.79    5.79    5.62    -O2 optim
-_
-Abs    video   940.33  469.30  399.21  367.64  544.12  UNIX 2.0
-*vgr   video   6.77    6.98    7.32    7.48    7.13    -O2
-_
-Abs    vhs     954.81  471.90  409.78  392.55  557.26  IRix 3.1
-*vgr   vhs     6.87    7.02    7.52    7.99    7.45    Parallel, -P1
-_
-Abs    bob     2602.68 1078.25 712.39  642.42  1258.93 UNICOS 4.0, /bin/cc
-*vgr   bob     21.22   18.17   15.39   13.98   17.19   -P 1
-_
-Abs    vector  3811.68 1469.80 1060.50 921.21  1815.79 Alliant 3.0
-*vgr   vector  27.45   21.88   19.46   18.75   21.88   -P 5
-_
-Abs    vector  4515.09 1751.94 1266.49 1090.85 2156.09 Alliant 3.0
-*vgr   vector  32.51   26.08   23.24   22.21   26.01   -P 6
-_
-Abs    patton  4550.67 1920.15 1298.61 1153.02 2230.61 UNICOS 3.0, /bin/cc
-*vgr   patton  37.10   32.36   28.05   25.09   30.65   -P 1
-_
-Abs    vector  5130.74 2004.49 1438.97 1261.36 2458.89 Alliant 3.0
-*vgr   vector  36.95   29.85   26.41   25.68   29.72   -P 7
-_
-Abs    bob     5186.24 2132.17 1409.10 1273.72 2500.30 UNICOS 4.0, /bin/cc
-*vgr   bob     42.28   35.93   30.44   27.71   34.09   -P 2
-_
-Abs    vector  5813.76 2260.61 1638.31 1422.82 2783.87 Alliant 3.0
-*vgr   vector  41.87   33.66   30.07   28.97   33.64   -P 8
-_
-Abs    amber   5901.29 2702.65 2096.35 1893.41 3148.42
-*vgr   amber   42.50   40.24   38.47   38.55   39.94   -P 1
-_
-Abs    bob     7934.12 3392.98 2119.11 1929.74 3843.98 UNICOS 4.0, /bin/cc
-*vgr   bob     64.69   57.18   45.78   41.99   52.41   -P 3
-_
-Abs    patton  8898.79 3782.55 2559.48 2292.13 4383.23 UNICOS 3.0, /bin/cc
-*vgr   patton  72.56   63.75   55.30   49.88   60.37   -P 2
-_
-Abs    bob     10734.52        4436.61 2883.53 2617.47 5168.03 UNICOS 4.0, 
/bin/cc
-*vgr   bob     87.52   74.77   62.30   56.96   70.38   -P 4
-_
-Abs    patton  13078.79        5631.95 3832.88 3416.90 6490.13 UNICOS 3.0, 
/bin/cc
-*vgr   patton  106.64  94.92   82.81   74.36   89.68   -P 3
-_
-Abs    patton  17157.78        7437.55 5073.58 4531.25 8550.04 UNICOS 3.0, 
/bin/cc
-*vgr   patton  139.90  125.35  109.62  98.61   118.37  -P 4
-.TE
-.bp
-.NH 1
-RELEASE 3.7 STATISTICS (19-June-1989)
-.LP
-.TS H
-expand box;
-l l | n n n n n | n | l.
-A/*    H/W     Moss    World   Star    Bldg    M35     Mean    CPU
-_
-.TH
-Abs    vgr     128.64  54.47   45.17   40.35   49.02   63.53   1
-*vgr   vgr     1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00
-_
-Abs    rh2     1704.56 791.31  599.81  549.74  589.01  846.88  1
-*vgr   rh2     13.25   14.52   13.27   13.62   12.01   13.33
-_
-Abs    spark   435.69  208.59  176.76  177.69  174.67  234.68  1
-*vgr   spark   3.53    3.61    4.17    4.29    3.40    3.80
-_
-Abs    vhs     973.11  475.00  384.62  351.12  343.44  505.45  1
-*vgr   vhs     7.56    8.72    8.51    8.70    7.00    8.09
-_
-Abs    whisper 1118.35 561.81  473.52  439.76  509.26  620.54  1
-*vgr   whisper 8.69    10.31   10.48   10.89   10.38   10.15
-_
-Abs    nova    2024.80 976.01  790.17  732.35  ?       1130.83 1
-*vgr   nova    15.74   17.92   17.49   18.15   ?       17.32
-_
-Abs    ovoyage 1969.57 1001.21 862.77  809.61  786.11  1085.85 2
-*vgr   ovoyage 15.31   18.38   19.10   20.06   16.03   17.77
-_
-Abs    taylor  2446.98 1076.24 912.03  837.56  799.58  1214.47 1
-*vgr   taylor  19.02   19.75   20.19   20.75   16.31   19.20
-_
-Abs    worm    2671.46 1218.49 966.76  859.61  932.18  1329.70 1
-*vgr   worm    20.76   22.36   21.40   21.30   19.01   20.96
-_
-Abs    viper   3255.73 1368.96 1102.71 1039.37 1008.15 1554.98 8
-*vgr   viper   25.30   25.13   24.41   25.75   20.56   24.23
-_
-Abs    vector  3956.86 1625.23 1234.03 1137.36 1121.41 1814.97 8
-*vgr   vector  30.75   29.83   27.31   28.18   22.87   27.78
-_
-Abs    taylor  4730.05 2225.56 1742.09 1590.57 1551.78 2368.01 2
-*vgr   taylor  36.76   40.85   38.56   39.41   31.65   37.44
-_
-Abs    worm    5017.85 2309.86 1894.92 1708.27 1791.11 2544.40 2
-*vgr   worm    39.00   42.40   41.95   42.33   36.53   40.44
-_
-Abs    worm    7082.79 3359.99 2740.50 2502.03 2594.37 3655.93 3
-*vgr   worm    55.05   61.68   60.67   62.00   52.92   58.46
-_
-Abs    worm    8664.78 4162.53 3323.46 3115.36 3378.75 4528.97 4
-*vgr   worm    67.35   76.41   73.57   77.20   68.92   72.69
-_
-Abs    worm    10072.1 5016.57 4032.60 3855.90 4043.11 5404.06 5
-*vgr   worm    78.29   92.09   89.27   95.56   82.47   87.53
-_
-Abs    worm    11678.4 5752.20 4758.80 4493.16 4700.52 6276.60 6
-*vgr   worm    90.78   105.60  105.35  111.35  95.88   101.79
-_
-Abs    worm    12282.3 6021.31 5394.36 4908.98 5141.71 6749.72 7
-*vgr   worm    95.47   110.54  119.42  121.65  104.89  110.39
-_
-Abs    worm    12158.3 5913.50 5784.67 5327.66 5505.71 6937.96 8
-*vgr   worm    94.51   108.56  128.06  132.03  112.31  115.09
-_
-Abs    patton  16028.8 7289.7  4827.9  4392.5  20829.2 53368.1 4
-*vgr   patton  124.6   133.83  106.88  108.85  106.23  116.07
-.TE
-.bp
-.NH 1
-RELEASE 4.0 STATISTICS
-.LP
-.TS H
-expand box;
-l l | n n n n n | n | l.
-A/*    H/W     Moss    World   Star    Bldg    M35     Mean    CPU
-_
-.TH
-Abs    vgr     137.82  67.23   56.39   53.91   69.25   76.92   1
-*vgr   vgr     1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00
-_
-Abs    slc1    153.63  80.95   62.94   60.48   ?       71.60   1
-*vgr   slc1    1.12    1.20    1.12    1.13    ?       .91
-_
-Abs    vision  165.85  89.78   76.44   75.78   96.18   100.80  1
-*vgr   vision  1.21    1.33    1.36    1.42    1.36    1.33
-_
-Abs    vmb     381.92  195.11  178.78  186.62  214.31  231.34  1
-*vgr   vmb     2.78    2.90    3.18    3.49    3.03    3.07
-_
-Abs    sws1    636.26  288.76  212.99  210.18  271.02  323.84  1
-*vgr   sws1    4.64    4.30    3.79    3.93    3.83    4.09
-_
-Abs    veto    827.25  436.38  361.89  348.99  422.19  479.34  1
-*vgr   veto    6.03    6.50    6.45    6.54    5.97    6.29
-_
-Abs    vhs     1040.44 500.52  436.90  415.15  496.30  577.86  1
-*vgr   vhs     7.59    7.46    7.79    7.78    7.02    7.52
-_
-Abs    cor3    1203.14 553.22  445.45  398.79  534.18  626.95  1
-*vgr   cor3    8.78    8.24    7.94    7.47    7.55    7.99
-_
-Abs    wilted  1556.66 800.18  722.95  708.21  858.90  929.38  1
-*vgr   wilted  11.36   11.93   12.89   13.27   12.15   12.32
-_
-Abs    shpcrc2 2274.36 1041.79 915.99  854.30  1110.23 1239.33 1
-*vgr   shpcrc2 16.59   15.53   16.33   16.01   15.70   16.03
-_
-Abs    walrus  2291.38 1094.04 960.07  892.67  1066.31 1260.89 1
-*vgr   walrus  16.72   16.31   17.12   16.72   15.08   16.39
-_
-Abs    walrus  4010.55 2019.34 1767.75 1685.19 2029.78 2302.52 2
-*vgr   walrus  29.27   30.11   31.52   31.58   28.71   30.23
-_
-Abs    patton  5235.87 2108.02 1509.85 1507.81 2132.01 2498.71 1
-*vgr   patton  38.21   31.43   26.92   28.25   30.15   30.99
-_
-Abs    crim    4679.97 2246.04 2143.07 1936.85 2224.65 2646.11 1
-*vgr   crim    34.15   33.49   38.22   36.29   31.47   34.72
-_
-Abs    uy1     6220.79 2474.97 1742.33 1748.73 2464.90 2930.34 1
-*vgr   uy1     45.40   36.90   31.07   32.77   34.86   36.20
-_
-Abs    wiltse  5785.83 2737.06 2473.66 2310.58 2699.06 3201.23 1
-*vgr   wiltse  42.22   40.81   44.11   43.30   38.18   41.72   -mips1
-_
-Abs    walrus  5743.85 2938.73 2513.24 2446.85 2858.84 3300.30 3
-*vgr   walrus  41.92   43.82   44.82   45.85   40.44   43.37
-_
-Abs    wiltse  7093.51 3458.89 2887.77 2730.62 3199.08 3873.97 1
-*vgr   wiltse  51.77   51.57   51.50   51.17   45.25   50.25   -mips2
-_
-Abs    walrus  7131.48 3613.02 3262.01 3048.77 3594.35 4129.92 4
-*vgr   walrus  52.05   53.87   58.17   57.13   50.84   54.41
-_
-Abs    whiz    7159.01 3655.65 3355.85 3132.36 3655.02 4191.57 4
-*vgr   whiz    52.25   54.51   59.85   58.70   51.70   55.40
-_
-Abs    walrus  7698.43 4119.06 3889.37 3690.27 4244.30 4728.28 5
-*vgr   walrus  56.18   61.42   69.36   69.15   60.04   63.23
-_
-Abs    walrus  8718.08 4625.56 4469.49 4295.53 4765.40 5374.81 6
-*vgr   walrus  63.63   68.97   79.71   80.50   67.41   72.04
-_
-Abs    walrus  8937.71 4882.66 4911.99 4601.09 5335.14 5733.71 7
-*vgr   walrus  65.23   72.81   87.60   86.22   75.47   77.46
-_
-Abs    walrus  9300.31 5136.17 5243.14 5112.23 5318.45 6022.06 8
-*vgr   walrus  67.88   76.59   93.51   95.80   75.23   81.80
-_
-.TE
-.bp
-.NH    1
-ADDITIONAL STATISTICS
-.PP
-It would be greatly appreciated if you would e-mail any statistics
-that you gather to the BRL-CAD developers, including: the ``summary''
-file produced by the benchmark script, which BRL-CAD release was used,
-the manufacturer of the machine, hardware model name/number, software
-version numbers (OS and compiler), presence or absence of floating
-point hardware, processor cache sizes, bus and memory speeds, and the
-local host name (preferably an Internet or UUCP host name) of the
-specific machine used.

Modified: brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man5/CMakeLists.txt
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--- brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man5/CMakeLists.txt 2020-05-28 19:35:09 UTC 
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(rev 75968)
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 set(man5_EN
   dsp.xml
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/attributes.xml
+  benchmark.xml
   burst_point_library.xml
   burst_shotline_files.xml
   bw.xml

Added: brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man5/benchmark.xml
===================================================================
--- brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man5/benchmark.xml                          
(rev 0)
+++ brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man5/benchmark.xml  2020-05-28 20:20:54 UTC 
(rev 75968)
@@ -0,0 +1,4210 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<refentry xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook' version='5.0' xml:lang='en' 
xml:id='benchmark_info'>
+  <refmeta>
+    <refentrytitle>BRL-CAD Benchmark Suite Methodology</refentrytitle>
+    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+    <refmiscinfo class='source'>BRL-CAD</refmiscinfo>
+    <refmiscinfo class='manual'>BRL-CAD</refmiscinfo>
+  </refmeta>
+
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>benchmark</refname>
+    <refpurpose>This document describes the BRL-CAD Benchmark Suite 
Methodology, and
+    the Ray-Tracing Figure of Merit (RTFM) used to judge the computational
+    performance of different computer systems.</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='intro'>
+    <title>Introduction</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The core of the test is the <command>rt</command> ray-tracing program.
+      The results for each processor are determined by running a benchmark 
test of the
+      RT ray-tracing program on each of the sample databases provided.  The
+      <command>rt</command> program requires a binary database for input 
("db/xxx.g"),
+      and produces a binary image as output ("bench/xxx.pix"), along with a
+      log file ("bench/xxx.log").  Each run will produce a 512x512x24 bit
+      color shaded image in a "bench/xxx.pix" file, and a run log in
+      "bench/xxx.log".  Reference copies of the images are provided as
+      "pix/xxx.pix" and "pix/xxx.log".  The sample databases provided are
+      processed in order of increasing difficulty, and each produces a
+      colorful image.  In each picture there are two light sources; the
+      primary source is located near the center of the model (the white
+      ball), and the secondary light source is located at the "eye"
+      position.
+    </para>
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='the_benchmark_models'>
+    <title>The Benchmark Models</title>
+
+    <para>
+      moss.g -- This is a simple model, containing a yellow torus, a green
+      ellipsoid, a bluish cube, a pink truncated (distorted) cone, all
+      sitting on a blue plate.  Note the shadowing, and "specular splash".
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      world.g -- The same model as moss.g, but with various rendering
+      features enabled.  The model is enclosed in a hollow cloud sphere.
+      The plate is a mirror, the egg is crystal, the box has a debugging
+      texture map applied.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      star.g -- A familiar sight to Star Trek fans; a low-detail exterior of
+      the ship "Enterprise".  The hull is white, with some other structures
+      in other colors.  The small red object in the foreground is the
+      shuttlecraft Galileo, to scale.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      bldg391.g -- An exploded view of a two-story imaginary computer site,
+      including various walls, red stairways, green disk drives, etc.  The
+      lower floor is a mirror, the upper floor is glass.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      m35.g -- A truck.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      sphflake.g -- A sphereflake.
+    </para>
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='machine_independence'>
+    <title>MACHINE INDEPENDENCE</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The databases are provided in an ASCII format in the "db" directory.
+      ascii-to-binary converters are provided in the "conv" directory.  On 
most systems the
+      command "<command>make benchmark</command>" (see the document <emphasis 
remap='I'>Installing
+      the BRL-CAD Package</emphasis>) will automatically compile, generate the 
binary .g files, and run the
+      benchmark tests.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The reference images are distributed in binary BRL-CAD
+      
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pix</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+      format.  Earlier releases distributed the reference images in the
+      portable ASCII form, and then converted them to the binary form.  This
+      consumed a significant amount of extra storage on UNIX machines, so
+      this practice was discontinued.  It is assumed that anyone attempting
+      to benchmark a system that can not read pure binary files will at
+      least have access to a UNIX system.  That UNIX system can be used to
+      convert the reference images to the portable ASCII form with the
+      
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pix2asc</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+      tool, and then those images may be sent to the machine under test.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      If you encounter difficulty with running the benchmark, you might wish
+      to build the full BRL-CAD package, to take advantage of the image
+      tools in determining the nature of the problem.  For example, one
+      system suffered from a compiler bug that made TGC solids vanish, while
+      another system had difficulties with the light visibility
+      calculations.
+    </para>
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='obtaining_correct_results'>
+    <title>OBTAINING CORRECT RESULTS</title>
+
+    <para>
+      The benchmark timings are not considered valid unless the correct
+      results are given.  Make sure that the answers match the reference
+      files to within plus-or-minus one in each color (see pixdiff(1)).
+      Slight variations in the calculated pixels are generally attributable
+      to variations in floating point precision.  You may wish to compare
+      the execution times and log file remarks from your tests (in the
+      "bench/xxx.log" files) with the VAX-11/780 (with hardware FPA) times
+      which are given in the "pix/xxx.log" files.  The log file for sphflake
+      has yet to be run on the same system, causing weighted results.  It's
+      still useful and informative, however, for deriving performance
+      statistics.  The reference images are also located in the "pix/"
+      directory.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      For example, if you are running the benchmark on a Cray XMP, the
+      world.pix and bldg391.pix images will have a single byte in the blue
+      channel off by 1, out in the cloud background.  This is not to be
+      considered an error.
+    </para>
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='benchmark_image_display'>
+    <title>BENCHMARK IMAGE DISPLAY</title>
+
+    <para>
+      If you have a suitable framebuffer, you may wish to display the images
+      generated by the benchmark, and compare them to the reference images.
+      This section assumes that you have successfully compiled the full set
+      of BRL-CAD software, not just the benchmark portion.  Programs for
+      dealing with images are in the "util" directory.  To display a
+      
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pix</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 file on a framebuffer, set environment variable FB_FILE
+      (see 
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>brlcad</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 for details), and run <emphasis role='strong' remap='B'>pix-fb</emphasis>.  
Note that by
+      leaving FB_FILE unset, your default display will be used.
+    </para>
+
+    <literallayout remap='.nf'>
+      <emphasis role='strong' remap='B'>
+       cd bench
+       pix-fb moss.pix
+      </emphasis>
+    </literallayout> <!-- .fi -->
+
+    <para>
+      If the images computed on your machine do not match the reference
+      images, the program "util/pixdiff" will compute a pix file that will
+      highlight the differences for you, and report a summary of bytes
+      equal, off-by-1, and off-by-many, e.g.,
+    </para>
+    <literallayout remap='.nf'>
+      pixdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix (or) pix-fb
+    </literallayout>
+
+    <para>
+      For a display of the relative magnitude of the differences at each
+      pixel, use "util/bwdiff" instead, e.g.,
+    </para>
+
+    <literallayout remap='.nf'>
+      <emphasis role='strong' remap='B'>
+       bwdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix (or) pix-fb
+      </emphasis>
+      or
+      <emphasis role='strong' remap='B'>
+       bwdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix (or)
+       bwmod -s 128 -m 4 -a 128 | pix-fb
+      </emphasis>
+    </literallayout> <!-- .fi -->
+
+    <para>and for statistics on the differences, use</para>
+
+    <para>     bwdiff moss.pix ../pix/moss.pix (or) pixstat</para>
+    <!-- ne 8i -->
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='the_competition'><title>THE COMPETITION</title>
+
+  <para>The full benchmark takes about 9 CPU hours on a VAX-11/780, so you
+  should scale your expectations accordingly.</para>
+
+  <para>Here is a sampling of some systems that have been tested, with as much
+  information about the configuration as could be obtained.  Some
+  systems have a great many options for small things that can affect
+  performance, such as memory interleaving.</para>
+
+  <informaltable pgwide='0' frame='border'>
+    <tgroup cols='2' align='center'>
+      <colspec colname='c1'/>
+      <colspec colname='c2'/>
+      <tbody>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>System Name</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>Configuration</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>_</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>_</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>axposf</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>DEC Alpha 4000/710, 256M, OSF/1 V3.0(1)</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>ex-art</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>Pentium-P90, 16MB, 256K cache, BSD/OS 
2.0,</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>hawks</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>486DX/33, 24MB, 256K cache, BSD/OS 2.0</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>orac</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>486/100, 20MB, No cache, BSD/OS 2.0 
(laptop)</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>pk</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>Cray C90, C916/161024, UNICOS 8.0.2.4</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>SGI, 18* 75 MHz R8000 IP21, 1024M RAM 8-way, 
Irix 6.0</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>vblt</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>66 MHz 486DX2/66, 16M RAM, Linux 1.1.73</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>vgr</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>DEC VAX-11/780 w/FPA, 64M RAM, 4.3 BSD</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>vision</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>Sun-3/280 w/68881 FPA, 16M RAM, SunOS 
4.1.1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>voyage</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>SGI, 4* 25 MHz R3000 IP7, 56M RAM, Irix 
4.0.1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>whiz</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>SGI Ingido**2, 100 MHz IP22, 96M RAM, Irix 
5.2</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>waffle</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>SGI, 4* 25 MHz R3000 IP7, 64M RAM, Irix 4.0.5 
(heavy network use)</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>warp</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>Sun SPARCstation 5, 32M RAM, SunOS 4.1.4</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>SGI, 24* 150 MHz R4400 IP19, 1024M RAM 4-way, 
Irix 5.2</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>wilson</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>SGI, 8* 100 MHz R4400 IP19, 1024M RAM 8-way, 
Irix 5.2</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>wilted</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>Sun-4/25 ELC, 16M RAM, SunOS 4.1.1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>wimp</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>33 MHz 386DX/33 w/387, 256k cache, 16M RAM, BSDI 
2.0beta2</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>wimpy</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>Sun SS10BSX-GX, 2* 50 MHz SuperSPARC, 64M RAM, 
SunOS 5.4</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left'>wizard</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>SGI Ingido**2, 150 MHz IP22, 96M RAM, Irix 
5.3</entry>
+       </row>
+      </tbody>
+    </tgroup>
+  </informaltable>
+
+
+  <para>(1) The Alpha was heavily loaded while the benchmark was being run.
+  DEC requires us to show the load average at the time:</para>
+
+  <para>03:28  up 18 days, 10:59,  7 users,  load average: 2.00, 2.00, 
2.08</para>
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='benchmark_results'><title>BENCHMARK RESULTS</title>
+
+  <para>In the tradition of Dongarra, the Rays/sec figure is considered the
+  "RT Figure of Merit" (RTFM).  Note that the RTFM can only be compared
+  between different runs on the <emphasis remap='I'>same</emphasis> database; 
it is not
+  meaningful to compare RTFM numbers between different databases. The
+  Rays/sec number for a multi-processor machine is for "aggregate CPU
+  cluster seconds", rather than rays/total CPU seconds (which remains
+  fairly constant on good parallel machines).</para>
+
+  <para>The statistics are recorded in an easily understood format, with all
+  results for a particular configuration listed on a single line.  The
+  numbers reported are the rays/sec (RTFM) figure.  Entries denoted with
+  an asterisk ("*") produced incorrect results.  Entries denoted with a
+  dash ("-") were not available and should be considered differently
+  than those entries with an asterisk.  Generally the results are not
+  available because time constraints prevented running the complete set
+  of databases.</para>
+
+  <!-- ne 8i -->
+  </refsection>
+
+  <refsection xml:id='release_44_statistics'><title>RELEASE 4.4 STATISTICS 
(4-Jan-1995)</title>
+
+  <para>There is very little difference in RTFM numbers between Release 4.0
+  and Release 4.4, so they can be usefully compared.  In some cases the
+  4.4 performance is slower due to the use of shared libraries.  For
+  example "vision" dropped from 1.33 to 1.22 due to the shared
+  libraries.  For most users reducing the disk consumption from 300
+  MBytes to 30 MBytes makes this a reasonable tradeoff.  However, for
+  the best performance, use non-shared libraries.</para>
+
+  <informaltable pgwide='1' frame='border'>
+    <tgroup cols='8' align='center'>
+      <colspec colname='c1'/>
+      <colspec colname='c2'/>
+      <colspec colname='c3'/>
+      <colspec colname='c4'/>
+      <colspec colname='c5'/>
+      <colspec colname='c6'/>
+      <colspec colname='c7'/>
+      <colspec colname='c8'/>
+      <thead>
+       <row rowsep='1'>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>H/W</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>Moss</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>World</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>Star</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>Bldg</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>M35</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>Mean</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>S/W Notes</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>.TH</entry>
+          <entry align='right'></entry>
+          <entry align='right'></entry>
+          <entry align='right'></entry>
+          <entry align='right'></entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'></entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'></entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+      </thead>
+      <tbody>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>810.91</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1091.39</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1012.63</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1027.25</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1092.85</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1007</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P18 static</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>773.8</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1038.7</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>979.49</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>970.91</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1036.62</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>959.9</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P17</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>732.85</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1021.69</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>968.93</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>922.62</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1024.15</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>934.04</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P18 (SW lock)</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>769.38</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>940.83</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>953.36</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>924.7</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1050.14</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>927.68</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P24</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>730.17</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>994.97</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>934.43</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>917.1</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>987.83</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>912.9</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P16</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>725.26</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>957.68</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>927.61</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>932.67</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>992.75</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>907.19</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P24</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>756.95</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>915.96</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>940.43</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>903.45</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>966.09</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>896.57</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P23</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>686.8</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>939.63</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>897.72</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>884.39</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>927.16</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>867.14</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P15</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>691.18</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>853.75</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>887.17</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>859.32</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>933.41</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>844.96</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P21</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>724.73</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>683.08</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>890.87</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>900.82</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>939.31</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>827.76</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P22</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>645.32</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>881.18</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>843.23</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>801.41</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>859.26</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>806.08</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P14</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>757.74</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>820.21</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>871.37</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>877.6</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>792.84</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P20</entry>
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+       <row rowsep='1'>
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+          <entry align='right'>608.12</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>835.84</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>795.36</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>759.95</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>806.32</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>761.11</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P13</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>606.98</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>784.3</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>754.46</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>799.95</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>794.52</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>748.04</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P19</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>590.16</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>758.23</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>794.06</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>794.52</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>757.79</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>738.95</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P18</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>579.29</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>722.35</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>787.55</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>720.26</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>754.65</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>712.82</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P17</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>571.14</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>783.72</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>740.47</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>697.24</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>746.72</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>707.85</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P12</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>553.72</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>697.1</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>744.21</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>663.61</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>723.03</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>676.33</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P16</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>534.85</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>716.58</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>685.87</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>656.25</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>685.77</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>655.86</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P11</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>519.01</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>655.57</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>690.95</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>651.9</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>663.92</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>636.27</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P15</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>475.88</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>637.33</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>665.38</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>608.31</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>653.99</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>608.17</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P14</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>499.46</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>663.26</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>633.48</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>614.58</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>624.34</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>607.02</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P10</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>449.16</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>591.54</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>616.21</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>590.59</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>614.25</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>572.35</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P13</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>463.3</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>598.34</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>575.07</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>555.62</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>560.89</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>550.64</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P9</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>424.71</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>556.8</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>595.02</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>521.63</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>538.78</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>527.38</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P12</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>424.89</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>534.5</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>509.85</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>497.63</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>503.99</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>494.17</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P8</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>391.66</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>490.63</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>545.28</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>488.57</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>508.96</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>485.02</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P11</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>315.45</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>472.03</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>525.47</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>442.37</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>461.44</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>443.35</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P10</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>381.1</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>467.67</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>440.13</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>425.57</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>442.04</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>431.3</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P7</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>309.35</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>426.37</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>386.11</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>417.85</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>434.96</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>394.92</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P9</entry>
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+       <row rowsep='1'>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>336.55</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>392.2</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>390.72</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>373.92</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>380.03</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>374.68</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P6</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>307.6</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>361.32</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>396.07</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>380.17</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>380.74</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>365.18</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P8</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>245.87</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>332.33</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>362.5</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>338.62</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>331.39</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>322.14</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P7</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>288.45</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>327.78</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>328.76</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>314.54</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>320.16</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>315.93</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P5</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>255.29</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>299.93</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>302.08</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>256.54</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>273.73</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P6</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wilson</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>265.17</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>287.8</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>262.19</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>269.62</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>261.55</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P8</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>240.6</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>269.93</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>266.46</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>253.99</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>259.05</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>258</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P4</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>231.65</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>248.63</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>221.45</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>227.89</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P5</entry>
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+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>185.27</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>201.64</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>197.27</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>195.17</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P4</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>187.58</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>198.84</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>202.28</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>191.94</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>194.74</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>195.07</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P3</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>138.01</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>159.36</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>141.33</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>144.24</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P3</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>130.61</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>140.04</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>134.88</entry>
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+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>129.78</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>132.93</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P2</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>102.09</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>111.12</entry>
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+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>99.98</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P2</entry>
+       </row>
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+          <entry align='right'>99.10</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>97.51</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>96.65</entry>
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+          <entry align='left'>-P2</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row rowsep='1'>
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+          <entry align='right'>82.14</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>93.60</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>92.17</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>103.59</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>82.22</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>90.74</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P2</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>axposf</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>82.27</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>86.72</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>84.36</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>79.28</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>82.73</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>79.68</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>77.7</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>73.89</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>71.38</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>70.06</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>74.54</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1 static</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vapor</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>70.14</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>67.52</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>65.55</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>66.69</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>67.84</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1 shared</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wizard</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>55.86</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>68.97</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>73.21</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>61.56</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>64.68</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>58.58</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>65.24</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>67.39</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>59.31</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>62.56</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wax</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>56.06</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>61.45</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>64.4</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>56.11</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>59.42</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>voyage</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>52.78</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>55.44</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>58.19</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>58.03</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>52.41</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>55.37</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P4</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>pk</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>64.89</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>55.71</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>48.01</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>49.50</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>53.43</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>54.30</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>waffle</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>38.56</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>47.63</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>62.36</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>59.62</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>51.20</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>51.87</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P4</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>50.17</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>48.82</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>50.46</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>55.12</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>49.27</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>50.76</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>47.80</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>43.23</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>51.37</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>54.10</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>46.23</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>48.54</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>weber</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>43.45</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>50.88</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>50.33</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>46.03</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>47.44</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>39.54</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>45.98</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>42.93</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>34.82</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>40.88</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>31.08</entry>
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+          <entry align='right'>39.62</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>36.98</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>36.22</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>21.33</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>23.71</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>24.19</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>22.60</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>22.34</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>18.54</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>22.98</entry>
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+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>25.57</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>22.19</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>10.72</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>12.43</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>11.30</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>10.05</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>10.66</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>10.53</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>9.87</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>10.03</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
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+          <entry align='right'>3.64</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>4.17</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>5.71</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>6.90</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>6.23</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>5.33</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vblt</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>4.85</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>4.89</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>5.29</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>5.24</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.90</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>5.03</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>wimp</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.16</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.34</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.82</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>2.25</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>2.06</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.72</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vision</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.07</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.23</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.23</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.31</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.26</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.22</entry>
+          <entry align='left'>-P1</entry>
+       </row>
+       <row>
+          <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vgr</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.0</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.0</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.0</entry>
+          <entry align='right'>1.0</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.0</entry>
+          <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.0</entry>
+          <entry align='left'></entry>
+       </row>
+      </tbody>
+    </tgroup>
+  </informaltable>
+
+
+
+  <!-- ne 8i -->
+</refsection>
+
+<refsection xml:id='the_old_competition'><title>THE OLD COMPETITION</title>
+
+<para>These are the definitions for systems measured in previous tests.</para>
+
+<informaltable pgwide='0' frame='border'>
+  <tgroup cols='2' align='center'>
+    <colspec colname='c1'/>
+    <colspec colname='c2'/>
+    <tbody>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>System Name</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Configuration</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>_</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>_</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>alliant</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Alliant FX/8 (8 CEs, 9 IPs, 64 Mbytes), Concentrix 
3.0</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>amber</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>HP 9000/720, 32 MB memory</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>amsaa-seer</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Gould PN 9080, w/MACCs, UTX 2.0, 4x4Mb mem 
boards</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>ardec-3</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Pyramid 90Mx, Dual-CPU, OSx 2.5, 16 Mbytes</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>bob</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Cray-2, SN 2009, 4.3ns clock</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>cor3</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Pyramid MIS-12T/3, OSx 192</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>patton</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Cray X-MP/48, SN213, UNICOS 5.0, 8.5ns 
clock</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>uy1</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Cray Y-MP8/2128, UNICOS 5.1.11</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>shpcrc2</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>IBM RS/6000, AIX 3.1</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>slc1</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Macintosh II, 68020, 68881, AUX 1.1, GCC 
1.39</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>spark</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Gould PN 9050, no MACC, UTX 2.0, 2x4Mb mem 
boards</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>sws2</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Convex C120, 16 Mbytes, Convex Unix 
6.2.32.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>vector</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Alliant FX/80 (8 ACEs, 6 IPs, 32 Mbytes), 
Concentrix</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>venom</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Alliant FX/8 (8 CEs, 6 IPs, 32 Mbytes), 
Concentrix</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>VAX 780, FPA, 4.3 BSD</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>virus</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun-3/50, 15 Mhz clock, 12 Mhz 68881, Sun UNIX 
3.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>vista</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>SGI 3030, w/FP chip, UNIX release 3.5</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>vmb</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Gould PN 9080, no MACCs, UTX 2.0, 12x1Mb mem 
boards</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>vhs</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4D/60T, 12.5 Mhz clock 16 MB 
memory</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>ovoyage</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4D/120, 16.7 Mhz clock 16 MB 
memory</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>taylor</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4D/220, 25 Mhz clock 16 MB 
memory</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>crim</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4DCRIMS 50Mhz clock 128 MB 
memory</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>wiltse</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4D R4000 50Mhz clock</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>c1east</entry>
+        <entry align='left'><para>Convex C1 XP (2 IOPs, 4 Multibus, 64 Mbytes),
+       S/W 6.0.1.12</para></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>elxsi-gnu</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Elxsi 6420, BSD 4.2 16 MB</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>elxsi-gnuy</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Elxsi 6420, Sys Vr2, 16MB</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>elxsi-m1</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Elxsi 6410, BSD 4.2 16 MB</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>hep</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Denelcor HEP, 4 PEMs</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>indigo</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>SGI Iris 3030, FPA, GL2-W3.5</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>mseries</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>MIPS Mseries, Release 0.6, UMIPS 2.1, 16 MB of 
R2350 RAM.
+       R2000 CPU rev 5.0, R2010 FP rev 2.0</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>multiflow</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Multiflow Trace 7/200 (PRELIMINARY)</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>nova</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun SPARCserver 490, 32 Mb, 33 MHz clock, 33 MHz 
TI 8847 FPU, SunOS 4.1.1B</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>rh2</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Tektronix, Motorola 88000</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>snm2</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Cray 1-M, SN2, UNICOS 2.0</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>sws1</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Convex C1, ConvexOS 9.1 48MB memory</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>tek4132</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Tektronix 4132, 32082 fpp, UTek 2.3</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>utah-gr</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>VAX 785, FPA, 4.3 BSD</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>utah-cs</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>VAX 8600, FPA, 4.3 BSD</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>veto</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun 4/260 32MB memory Sun UNIX 4.0.3</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>violet</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>VaxStationII GPX, Ultrix 1.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>vision</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun-3/280, 16 MB memory</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>vortac</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun-3/160, 16.67 Mhz clock, 12 Mhz 68881, Sun 
3.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>walrus</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4D/280 25 Mhz clock 64 MB memory 
Irix 3.3.1</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>whiz</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4D/240 25 Mhz clock 56 MB memory 
Irix 3.3.1</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>whisper</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun SPARCStation 1+</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>wilted</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun SPARCstation ELC , Diskless, 12MB memory Sun 
UNIX 4.1.1</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>worm</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Silicon Graphics 4D/280 25 Mhz clock 64 MB memory 
Irix 3.3.1</entry>
+      </row>
+    </tbody>
+  </tgroup>
+</informaltable>
+
+
+
+<!-- ne 8i -->
+</refsection>
+
+<refsection xml:id='old_benchmark_results'><title>OLD BENCHMARK RESULTS</title>
+
+<para>These are the results of previous benchmarks.</para>
+</refsection>
+
+<refsection xml:id='release_120_statistics'><title>RELEASE 1.20 STATISTICS 
(12-Feb-1987)</title>
+
+<informaltable pgwide='1' frame='border'>
+  <tgroup cols='8' align='center'>
+    <colspec colname='c1'/>
+    <colspec colname='c2'/>
+    <colspec colname='c3'/>
+    <colspec colname='c4'/>
+    <colspec colname='c5'/>
+    <colspec colname='c6'/>
+    <colspec colname='c7'/>
+    <colspec colname='c8'/>
+    <thead>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>A/*</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>H/W</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>Moss</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>World</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>Star</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>Bldg</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>Mean</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>S/W Notes</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>.TH</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'></entry>
+        <entry align='right'></entry>
+        <entry align='right'></entry>
+        <entry align='right'></entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'></entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'></entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+    </thead>
+    <tbody>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>tek4132</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>80.5</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>44.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>33.9</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>31.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>UTek 2.3</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>tek4132</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.72</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.69</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.62</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>0.62</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>violet</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>107.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>57.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>44.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>44.1</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Ultrix 1.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>violet</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.96</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.90</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.81</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>0.87</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>violet</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>119.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>63.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>50.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>46.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Ultrix 1.2,</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>violet</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.06</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.99</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>0.91</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>0.91</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>w/fast_sqrt</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>112.1</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>63.6</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>55.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>50.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>BSD 4.3</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.0</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>indigo</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>115.9</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>85.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>*</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>101.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>GL2-W3.5</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>indigo</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.03</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.34</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>*</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>2.01</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vista</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>116.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>86.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>*</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>102.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>SGI UNIX 3.5</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vista</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.04</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.35</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>*</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>2.02</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>virus</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>127.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>69.9</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>57.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>52.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun UNIX 3.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>virus</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.14</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.10</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.04</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.03</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vortac</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>148.2</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>81.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>65.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>60.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Sun UNIX 3.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vortac</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.32</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.27</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.20</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.20</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>utah-gr</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>191.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>105.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>89.9</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>86.5</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>4.3 BSD</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>utah-gr</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.71</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.66</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.64</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>1.71</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>ardec-3</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>-</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>68.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>57.2</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>-</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>OSx 2.5</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>ardec-3</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>-</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.08</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>1.04</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>-</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>elxsim1</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>380.5</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>232.2</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>204.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>189.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>BSD 4.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>elxsim1</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.39</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.65</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.72</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>3.73</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>spark</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>413.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>232.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>213.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>211.9</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>UTX 2.0</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>spark</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.69</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.65</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.89</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.18</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vmb</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>413.9</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>233.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>210.6</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>212.6</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>UTX 2.0</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>vmb</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.69</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.67</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.83</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.19</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>c1east</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>454.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>252.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>205.6</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>192.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Convex UNIX 6.0.1.12,</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>c1east</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.06</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.97</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.74</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>3.80</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>vanilla cc</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>seer</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>460.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>263.2</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>246.8</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>241.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>UTX 2.0</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>seer</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.11</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.14</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.49</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.75</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>venom</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>492.9</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>228.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>180.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>157.1</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Concentrix 2.0</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>venom</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.40</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.58</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>3.27</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>3.10</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>elxgnu</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>520.6</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>315.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>264.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>242.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>BSD 4.2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>elxgnu</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.64</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.96</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.81</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.77</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>utah-cs</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>521.1</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>292.1</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>237.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>216.2</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>BSD 4.3</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>utah-cs</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.64</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.59</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.32</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.27</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>c1east</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>521.6</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>285.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>230.5</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>215.1</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Convex UNIX 6.0.1.12,</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>c1east</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.66</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.49</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.20</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.24</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>vc -O1 (scalar)</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>c1east</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>527.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>287.4</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>228.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>210.0</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>Convex UNIX 6.0.1.12,</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>c1east</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.71</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.52</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.16</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.14</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>vc -O2 (vector)</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>elxgnuy</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>644.7</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>349.3</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>264.6</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>242.1</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'>System Vr2</entry>
+      </row>
+      <row rowsep='1'>
+        <entry align='left'>*vgr</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>elxgnuy</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>5.75</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>5.49</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>4.81</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>4.77</entry>
+        <entry align='right' colsep='1'>?</entry>
+        <entry align='left'></entry>
+      </row>
+      <row>
+        <entry align='left'>Rays</entry>
+        <entry align='left' colsep='1'>mflow</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>845.2</entry>
+        <entry align='right'>439.5</entry>

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