A couple of weeks ago I went over to one of our clients at North Dakota State University. The new release of Java3D for IRIX had just been released, so one of the things I did while there was to test out Xj3D on their Onyx/Powerwall combo. It worked with barely any changes (actually, just makefile fixes, no code changes) and I've put some screenshots up here:
http://www.xj3d.org/pics.html
We were quite disappointed with the performance of Java3D on the SGI box. In some cases my 2 year old laptop was getting better framerates and in most cases within 10%. :( This wasn't Xj3D's fault though as we tried running the stock Sun Java3D demos and the results were the same so there's something seriously wrong internally within the IRIX port of Java3D. (for reference Performer demos of the same objects were 6-8 times faster in framerates).
This was only a single pipe machine, but that shouldn't make any difference to performance relative to a laptop. I've heard of some other issues with multipipe running on an SGI, but haven't had the cycles to be able to get back with the people involved to see what's going on.
-- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant -------------------------------------------------------------------
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