Sunflow

Description

This benchmark tests graphics visualization using an open source, internally multi-threaded global illumination rendering system. The sunflow library is threaded internally, i.e. it's possible to run several bundles of dependent threads to render an image. The number of internal sunflow threads is required to be 4 for a compliant run. It is however possible to configure in property specjvm.benchmark.sunflow.threads.per.instance, but no more than 16, per sunflow design. Per default, the benchmark harness will use half the number of benchmark threads, i.e. will run as many sunflow benchmark instances in parallel as half the number of hardware threads. This can be configured in specjvm.benchmark.threads.sunflow.

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