irclog2html for #brlcad on 20060916

00:37.07 IriX64 A A' :)
00:37.49 IriX64 forget how to switch them though and they say a different part of the anatomy is the first to go.:)
00:38.46 IriX64 still got the book, programming for the Z80 :)
00:45.16 IriX64 so lets see, byte 0 , byte 1 ... byte 512 thats sector 1 then immediatly followed by sector 2 ... to 1024 sectors, then and so on to 256 megs and ive got a portable floppy disk commonly called a jump drive. right?
00:45.42 IriX64 left out track but it's implied.
00:46.07 IriX64 fat is appropriate.
00:46.20 IriX64 fat32 can be supported.
00:46.30 IriX64 somebody check me.
01:06.26 IriX64 where do i find #devicedriverwriters :)
01:16.58 Maloeran Efnet's #kernel for Linux driver development, I'm sure there's something on freenode too
01:18.11 brlcad same channel
01:27.10 brlcad heh
01:27.40 Twingy sean, I'm gonna make a bike that generates energy back into the grid
01:28.09 Twingy it'll generate like 2 cents an hour :}
01:29.11 brlcad heh, would make for a nice business venture for health clubs
01:29.18 Twingy hehe
01:30.03 Twingy heh
01:30.15 Twingy only $10k in equipment
01:30.25 Maloeran I'll only need 250 hours at 200 watt to risk exceeding that 5$ gift limit the next time I drop by
01:30.34 Twingy haha
01:31.09 Twingy I think I will need to make it an energy capture machine
01:31.26 Twingy because at < 175W it doesn't do anything
01:31.34 Twingy rerun
01:36.14 brlcad er, don't think this is a rerun -- at least i haven't seen it
01:36.44 brlcad and it just referred to the new episode from two weeks about about takara getting blown up
01:37.35 Twingy ah
01:37.41 Twingy well, I'll watch it in 2 hours
01:37.47 Twingy comes on at 11 again
01:42.16 brlcad the allucian alliance thanks you
01:49.34 *** join/#brlcad dan_falck (n=danfalck@pool-71-111-76-8.ptldor.dsl-w.verizon.net)
02:04.59 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03lbutler * 10brlcad/src/librt/ (150 files): Doxygen updates
02:24.54 IriX64 you picked a fyne tyme to leave me lucille ;)
02:26.51 IriX64 sigh , I can hear the flapping of wings, but the song eludes me. :)
03:11.18 Maloeran Erik, question : would it be of any value for ray-tracing nodes to be able to join and depart the work network at any time?
03:12.33 ``Erik I think so
03:13.11 Maloeran Okay, that's what I initially had in mind. Still planning chunks of distributed preparation and synchronisation
03:17.49 Maloeran To translate fully built graphs from pointers back into indices for newly joined nodes is rather akward
05:33.42 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03lbutler * 10brlcad/misc/doxygen_structure: Doxygen updates for librt
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08:00.47 CIA-9 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/misc/Makefile.defs: rework the noprod logic for issue encountered on netbsd on vax where the shell is invoking with a different precedence on &&/||, so be more explicit
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14:59.13 ``Erik see ya in utah, dude
15:07.12 brlcad wooh hooo! got benchmark working under vax finally
15:07.33 brlcad stupid libm bug
15:07.45 brlcad yeah, see ya Maloeran .. happy trails
15:31.38 ``Erik nifty
15:31.45 ``Erik and how many vgr's is a vgr?
15:47.29 brlcad eh, don't know that yet.. still running the benchmark :)
15:48.08 brlcad it's on 3 of 6 and been going for about an hour
15:48.59 brlcad it's down to just a few hundred rays per sec though, so it should be interesting
15:49.57 brlcad this isn't an optimized build yet either, so technically it could be even slower than 1 vgr if the originals were optimized (which I don't know if they were or not)
15:50.45 brlcad though it certainly seems to feel like it's in the 0 to 10 vgr range
15:52.21 brlcad spent *hours* last night debugging trying to figure out why it was crashing, stack would hose after calling atan2() and gdb would infinite loop up on certain prints of floats
15:53.15 brlcad then spent hours relinking with a static libm just to make testing a little easier, and the problem was solved -- had to hack up libbn a little for vax floating point, but it's all good now
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17:48.03 ``Erik O.o
17:53.47 brlcad Summary:
17:53.47 brlcad Abs unknown 1198.23 432.80 371.64 346.31 639.24 642.15 605.06 Fri Sep 15 09:06:11 EDT 2006
17:53.50 brlcad *vgr unknown 8.74 6.45 6.62 6.49 9.04 .04 6.23
17:54.35 brlcad not to shabby.. i think it is throttled, just perhaps throttled to a faster vax than vgr used to be (which I can probably tweak via simh settings)
17:56.34 brlcad also exposes a problem in the m35 reference image I think.. it still had the usual 74 off by 1 (though also 3 off by many)
17:57.31 brlcad have to check the logs but i'm guessing someone uploaded a new ref image, keeping the same performance log, causing the continued off-by-1 numbers everywhere
18:26.02 ``Erik <-- not so good at reading vgr accounts, mostly looks for the stuff in the -=-=-=
18:30.24 ``Erik maybe you should run a really old version (like, the version our vgr's are based off of) to tune the vm, changes in the code may have improved efficiency...
18:30.24 ``Erik :)
18:43.27 brlcad vgr is the last number on the vgr line, 6.23
18:43.44 brlcad it's an average of the individual runs, which preceed it
18:43.57 brlcad line before it is the same, but with rtfm counts
18:44.45 brlcad i was thinking the same regarding improvements, that could very well explain the variations too if there were, say optimizations to the sphere shot routine
18:45.00 brlcad checking to see if kermit can pull up some old binaries even
18:45.17 brlcad though i really dont' want to install 4.3 bsd..
18:51.44 ``Erik um, compile old source on it?
18:51.56 ``Erik maybe hack the simh config to make it like a 1ghz vax for the compile? hehehe
18:52.50 brlcad still trying to find out if simh is clock synced
18:52.58 brlcad or even settable
19:20.24 ``Erik it's written in C... you have the source code... it's all settable. :D
19:28.45 brlcad heh
19:28.51 brlcad actually i've gotten some more info
19:29.27 brlcad it's simulating a microvax II (1985), not a vax 11/780 (1979)
19:29.43 brlcad i'm having trouble booting up the 11/780 simulator, but giving it a go
19:30.25 brlcad someone who seems to be in the know in classiccmp seems to think it's not throttled, just happens to run about that slow
19:41.20 ``Erik eck
19:41.55 ``Erik what's cpu load when it's chunking?
19:42.00 brlcad not sure i believe him though -- it's too close
19:42.10 brlcad it's full cpu, single threaded
19:42.26 ``Erik huh, if it's burning a full core, maybe it just IS that slow :/
19:42.38 brlcad it's full cpu even if it's idle
19:42.50 ``Erik busywait :/
19:43.30 brlcad heh, http://www.openbsd.org/images/vax.jpg
19:43.51 ``Erik hahahaa
19:49.07 ``Erik amusing, I look for a pic of an 11/780 and it takes me to ftp.arl.mil
19:50.52 IriX64 thats a hell of a hot vax. :)
19:53.18 IriX64 simh eh? lets try.
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19:58.44 IriX64_ was asking, what are you benchmarking the simulated machine with brlcad?
20:02.37 IriX64 :)

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