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raytracer: Performance of a ray-tracing software on different hardware configurations

Description

A dataset containing performance data for a ray-tracing benchmark.

Arguments

format

A data frame with 11 rows on 2 variables

source

Neil J. Gunther. Guerrilla Capacity Planning: A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 1st edition, 2007. Original dataset from http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/

Details

The benchmark measured the number of ray-geometry intersections per second. The data was gathered on an SGI Origin 2000 with 64 R12000 processors running at 300 MHz.

The data frame contains the following variables:

  • processorsThe number of CPUs used for the benchmark (1--64).
  • throughputThe number of operations per second.