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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (53503)	8/31/2001 8:00:28 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Wanna: yes, I meant rendering. Sorry for the confusion. Then, as I said, I'm shocked. (not necessarily a bad thing! ;-)) You should check out the IDF webcasts. They have a very good view of the demonstration. I think I have to at this point&#133 I seem to recall you posting the links earlier, thanks. Even when Windows NT shows the processor running at 100%, it's probably only using 30% of its resources (i.e. execution units). 2-way hyperthreading probably only increases that to 50%. I recall one of the companies making 3D rendering suites (I believe it was Alias/Wavefront regarding one of the very early versions of Maya - this would be early-to-mid nineties) bragged about the IPC-effeciency of its new software. Although, now that you pressure me, I cannot recall if this was on the SGI platform or Windows&#133 Probably SGI, now that I think about it, but then I don't really know much about the early days of Maya or Alias/Wavefront (other than SGI purchased and merged them way back when). -fyo