This is a simple benchmark that runs the River Pilot Simulator (RPS) for 30 seconds. The RPS is part of the RiverWeb project. It is the prototype exhibit that we installed at the Science Museum of Minnesota. More info here: http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~prajlich/rw/ The scene is made up of some terrain covered with a large land-usage texture, tree billboards, a water plane showing a depth texture, a tugboat model, and river flow vectors. The terrain data was about 4 million triangles. It was decimated down to ~150,000 and broken up into 256 chunks for efficient culling. A typical scene has about 30,000 tris. Scene statistics: ~30,000 tris ~6 MB of textures 700x700 resolution Machines brighton SGI Octane 250 MHz R10K MXE 256 MB rw-console Penguin dual PIII 500 MHz GeForce 256 (32 MB) 256 MB o2-3 SGI O2 175 MHz R10K CRM 256 MB cassatt Onyx2 12 250 MHz R10K InfiniteReality2 9GB Results brighton: benchmark: 266 frames 30.0302s 8.85774 fps benchmark: 265 frames 30.0215s 8.82701 fps benchmark: 264 frames 30.0769s 8.77751 fps notes: MXE has only 4 MB texture. It is loading 16 MB of texture per second which is consistent with 6 MB (scene) - 4 MB (mem) = 2 MB per frame. Eliminated texture loading. Used scaled-down textures and no tug textures: benchmark: 412 frames 30.0287s 13.7202 fps benchmark: 413 frames 30.022s 13.7566 fps notes: trying to stay under the 4 MB limit for this project is hopeless. :-) rw-console: benchmark: 613 frames 30.043s 20.4041 fps benchmark: 639 frames 30.0432s 21.2694 fps benchmark: 639 frames 30.0408s 21.2711 fps o2-3: benchmark: 133 frames 30.1962s 4.40452 fps benchmark: 132 frames 30.0852s 4.38753 fps benchmark: 129 frames 30.1105s 4.28422 fps cassatt: benchmark: 1388 frames 30.0016s 46.2641 fps benchmark: 1389 frames 30.0187s 46.2711 fps benchmark: 1366 frames 30.0195s 45.5038 fps