[jwhat]

Hi Irinikus,

I added a second RM11 (so now 2 x RM11) into my IR4 Chassis and this is now getting significantly better results than when I only had 1 x RM11:

Quake 2 (Q2) & Quake 3 (Q3) as per your setup.

For Q2:
setenv DECOUPLE_SWAPBUF y
timedemo 1
map demo1.dm2

For Q3:
\timedemo 1
\demo four


O350 with 24 CPU (8 x 800 MHz + 16 x 1GHZ) + 50 GB RAM / IR4 (with 2 x RM11) @ 1280x1024

Q2: 689 frames, 11.7 seconds: 59.1 fps (== refresh rate of monitor)
Q3: 1260 frames 30.8 seconds 40.9 fps 12.0/24.5/67.0/8.7 ms

From recollection, I think with single RM11 I was getting lower performance than V12 (Infinite Performance).

Back when I did first round of IR4 testing I said "I also ran the Quake 3 demo on O350 but results were funny so will redo later" ... the funny being that performance was well below what I would have expected. Adding 2nd RM11 seems to have addressed this.

So my results Q3 are:
- Octane (2 x 600) + V12 - 18 fps
- Fuel (800 HHZ) + V12 - 23.4 fps
- O350 (various CPU configs) + V12 - 26.2 fps
- O350 (24 CPU) + IR4 with 2 x RM11 - 40.9 fps

So now showing level of performance significantly better than V12 systems.

I now have 3 x RM11, still looking for extras to bring IR4 up to full complement...

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John