HappySqurriel on 10 March 2007
washimul said:
REAL -TIME raytracing was never done before......RAYCASTING was done.
CELL is 1000x more powerful than conventional pc cores.IF u havent looked at CELL benchmarks i could provide you with 100s of link.
you wd need atleast 50 quad cores to do that.
CELL on average is around 23x more powerful than a quad core amd/intel.
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/WEB-PAGES/SPRING-2007/Lect04b.pdf
http://cag.csail.mit.edu/crg/papers/eichenberger05cell.pdf
http://www.mc.com/literature/literature_files/Cell-Perf-Simple.pdf
http://www.mc.com/literature/literature_files/CellPerfAndProg-3Nov06.pdf
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~samw/projects/cell/EDGE06_abstract.pdf
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~samw/projects/cell/LBLTalk.pdf
NOTE :- with a mdified octopiler,EDGE and irt the performance boost could exceed 1000 in all case.
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Here's a fresh demo of my Arauna raytracer:
http://www.bik5.com/arauna_demo2.zip
Instructions:
1. Unzip and run arauna_supersampling.exe to measure peak performance (~11M on my machine);
2. Open scene.txt and add '//' to the fifth line (speedtest);
3. Run arauna.exe to walk around the scene. Keys:
A, S, D, W to walk forward/backward and strafe;
cursor keys to rotate the camera;
R and F to move down and up (reversed, sorry, forgot to fix).
That's the basic stuff; there's more to try out using scene.txt, have a look at the file to see what's possible.
washimul do you ever know what you're talking about?
Edit: BTW, that demo runs on my Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and is far more complex than the demo I saw running on a Pentium 3 ...
If the Cell really was 1,000 times as powerful as conventional CPUs we should be seeing Resistance: Fall of Man being raytraced ...
