Friday, April 04, 2008
PC speeded up 682 times !!!!
Using IBM's BLue Gene.
He found that conventional ray-tracing software could run 822 times faster on the Blue Gene/L than on a standard computer, even though the software was not optimised for the parallel processors of a supercomputer. This allowed it to convincingly mimic natural lighting in real time.
However it is not the end. Currently fastest supercomputers are 30 times faster.
Simply multiply 682 x 30 = 20K
He found that conventional ray-tracing software could run 822 times faster on the Blue Gene/L than on a standard computer, even though the software was not optimised for the parallel processors of a supercomputer. This allowed it to convincingly mimic natural lighting in real time.
However it is not the end. Currently fastest supercomputers are 30 times faster.
Simply multiply 682 x 30 = 20K
THIS LINK posted by Joseph Bell : 9:36 AM
