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).