LightWave 3D (Modeling): Editing Project
| Overall Statistics | Header Cell - Column 1 |
|---|---|
| Elapsed Time | 53.7 s |
| Read Operations | 11 |
| Write Operations | 130 |
| Data Read | 196 KB |
| Data Written | 550 KB |
| Disk Busy Time | 0.011 s |
| Average Data Rate | 65.89 MB/s |
Last week Intel launched its Xeon E5 processors, which we reviewed in Intel Xeon E5-2600: Doing Damage With Two Eight-Core CPUs. Applications like Cinebench 11.5, based on Maxon's Cinema 4D modeling/animation/rendering title, 3ds Max, and Vue 8 made it pretty clear that processing horsepower is perhaps the most in-demand resource in a workstation. As a result, it's easy to put all of our emphasis on CPU and graphics performance, overlooking the impact of storage altogether.
Editing a rendering project is not very resource-intensive because it depends on a lot of user input. Consequently, 89% of the operations in our trace occur at a queue depth of one. Most of the data transferred is random in nature, and a majority of operations are 4 KB in size, since any given project involves a lot of small, modular components.
I/O Trends:
- 89% of all operations occur at a queue depth of one
- 88% of all data transferred is random
- 60% of all operations are 4 KB in transfer size
- 16% of all operations are smaller than 512 bytes in transfer size
