Yes I got similar results on an O2, much slower than my NT machine.
Why does it require a $100,000 SGI graphics powerhouse to get average
performance?
At 02:38 PM 11/29/99 -0500, Kenneth Gordon wrote:
>B�n�dicte Le Grand wrote:
>
> > I'm usually using a Pentium II 400 MHz to run my java3D application.
> > I tried to run it on a Silicon Graphics octane IRIX 6.4,
> > Processor R10000 rev 2.7 at 175 MHZ and the performances are very bad.
> >
> > I would like to know the feeling of other Silicon Graphics users,
> > so as to know if the problem comes from my machine or if you have the same
> > problem.
>
>I have been doing some (VERY limited) benchmarking on several different
>platforms, and so far Java3D has performed extremely poorly on SGI machines.
>We ran our test application on several different NT machines in addition to an
>SGI O2 and an SGI Onyx2 (we have not yet tried it out on our SGI Octane),
>varying the number of objects in the scene (i.e. Shape3D nodes) between 1 and
>1000.
>
>On average, the frame rate on the O2 was around 1/3 that of the various NT
>machines we tested it on, while the frame rate on the Onyx2 was about 3/4 the
>frame rate of the NT's.
>
>For comparison, we wrote the identical program (well, as far as we could tell,
>they are pretty much identical) in OpenGL, and the O2 was about 25% faster
>than
>the NT machines, while the Onyx2 was about 100% faster.
>
>One of these days, when I compile the data and organize it a little better,
>I'll post the full set of results. Obviously, this is just one application,
>and it is being run on a limited number of machines, so this is NOT a thorough
>benchmark! However, the differences are noticable enough that they seem worth
>mentioning.
>
>
>Anyone else out there get similar results?
>
>
Jack S. Gundrum
Visualization Group
Center for Academic Computing
Penn State University
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