Kryotech SuperG Athlon 1000MHz

Data Explorer (DX-05) Viewset

Taken from: http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.static/dx.htm

The IBM Visualization Data Explorer (DX) is a general-purpose software package for scientific data visualization and analysis. It employs a data-flow driven client-server execution model and is currently available on Unix workstations from Silicon Graphics, IBM, Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment. The OpenGL port of Data Explorer was completed with the recent release of DX 2.1.

The tests visualize a set of particle traces through a vector flow field. The width of each tube represents the magnitude of the velocity vector at that location. Data such as this might result from simulations of fluid flow through a constriction. The object represented contains about 1,000 triangle meshes containing approximately 100 verticies each. This is a medium-sized data set for DX.

This is definitely not a strong point for the Athlon platform in general. Not only is the superior L2 cache speed of the Pentium III making the Athlon crave an on-die L2 cache (it'll get one in time) but the added memory bandwidth provided for by the RDRAM on the i820 test system gives the Pentium III 800 a clear lead over everything else.