time povray -D +a solve_centenario.pov +k5.2 on different boxes: --------------------------------------------------------------------- abacus --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- babbage --------------------------------------------------------------------- Render Time: Photon Time: No photons Radiosity Time: No radiosity Trace Time: 0 hours 1 minutes 45 seconds (105.761 seconds) using 20 thread(s) with 1475.072 CPU-seconds total real 1m47.841s user 24m36.389s sys 0m0.220s --------------------------------------------------------------------- euclide --------------------------------------------------------------------- Render Time: Photon Time: No photons Radiosity Time: No radiosity Trace Time: 0 hours 6 minutes 31 seconds (391.498 seconds) using 4 thread(s) with 1530.900 CPU-seconds total real 6m33.439s user 25m32.075s sys 0m0.186s --------------------------------------------------------------------- krylov: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Render Time: Photon Time: No photons Radiosity Time: No radiosity Trace Time: 0 hours 2 minutes 52 seconds (172.450 seconds) using 12 thread(s) with 1786.029 CPU-seconds total real 2m54.041s user 29m46.911s sys 0m0.146s --------------------------------------------------------------------- wilkins --------------------------------------------------------------------- Render Time: Photon Time: No photons Radiosity Time: No radiosity Trace Time: 0 hours 11 minutes 17 seconds (677.527 seconds) using 4 thread(s) with 2615.585 CPU-seconds total real 11m20.119s user 43m36.243s sys 0m1.878s