[-Adrian]

Howdy fellow Maxwellians,

I haven't visited this forum in a while. I've gotten several mails asking me when Benchwell will open for 2.0 entries. 'Thing is, i practically don't use Maxwell anymore and haven't upgraded from 1.7. When doing 3D, I'm mostly fiddling with Blender 2.5 now, focusing on other aspects than photorealism. Due to this i've lost the passion to maintain and expand Benchwell and i won't continue it in a half-assed manner.

If someone wants to keep this idea alive and pick up where i left off, i'd gladly hand them the project in its current state (Requires MYSQL 5 & PHP 5, probably works on 4.1 & 4 as well). From my experience, it's very tedious to make sense of someone else's coding, so starting from scratch is usually better, maybe taking a few hints or snippets. NextLimit might even want to do it themselves this time?

If the name/domain is of interest, we can arrange a transfer so it doesn't end up a marketing site for protein shakes

Thanks to the hundreds of contributors - your confidential email addresses have been deleted of course.


Let me know if there's any interest, either here or via e-mail (found on benchwell.com)

Cheers,
Adrian

[nicole]

Hi everyone,

We are currently talking to Adrian to see how we can take over the Benchwell site, as it's of interest to ourselves and our users. Hopefully we will come to an arrangement soon.
Many thanks to all of you for your contributions and support!

Cheers,

Nicole

[sandykoufax]

Good news to Adrian and NL and us.

[RenderFred]

Some thoughts...

I would suggest developing a "MaxwellBench" or "MaxwellMark" autonomous CPU benchmark. Kind of CineBench for Maxwell, self-sufficient and running with the Maxwell engine. So that everyone could run it, not only Maxwell users. CineBench has done a lot of good for Cinema 4D popularity, as a lot of hardware sites run it when they benchmark a new system because it is so easy to use. It would be a good publicity for Next Limit, and would make results collecting and storing easier. Of course the only problem is to develop the benchmark, which would take time and resources...

Anyway I believe the benchmark scene should be more representative of a real life project (interior architectural rendering for instance) and of what Maxwell 2 can do regarding materials, etc. The creation of this representative benchmark scene could be the work of the Maxwell community (a competition?).

[sandykoufax]

Some thoughts...

I would suggest developing a "MaxwellBench" or "MaxwellMark" autonomous CPU benchmark. Kind of CineBench for Maxwell, self-sufficient and running with the Maxwell engine. So that everyone could run it, not only Maxwell users. CineBench has done a lot of good for Cinema 4D popularity, as a lot of hardware sites run it when they benchmark a new system because it is so easy to use. It would be a good publicity for Next Limit, and would make results collecting and storing easier. Of course the only problem is to develop the benchmark, which would take time and resources...

Anyway I believe the benchmark scene should be more representative of a real life project (interior architectural rendering for instance) and of what Maxwell 2 can do regarding materials, etc. The creation of this representative benchmark scene could be the work of the Maxwell community (a competition?).

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 73&start=0

Yes, I suggested it too before, but they ignored.
And frybench is appeared some month later.

[numerobis]

Some thoughts...

I would suggest developing a "MaxwellBench" or "MaxwellMark" autonomous CPU benchmark. Kind of CineBench for Maxwell, self-sufficient and running with the Maxwell engine. So that everyone could run it, not only Maxwell users. CineBench has done a lot of good for Cinema 4D popularity, as a lot of hardware sites run it when they benchmark a new system because it is so easy to use. It would be a good publicity for Next Limit, and would make results collecting and storing easier. Of course the only problem is to develop the benchmark, which would take time and resources...

Anyway I believe the benchmark scene should be more representative of a real life project (interior architectural rendering for instance) and of what Maxwell 2 can do regarding materials, etc. The creation of this representative benchmark scene could be the work of the Maxwell community (a competition?).

+1

[Tok_Tok]

Some thoughts...

I would suggest developing a "MaxwellBench" or "MaxwellMark" autonomous CPU benchmark. Kind of CineBench for Maxwell, self-sufficient and running with the Maxwell engine. So that everyone could run it, not only Maxwell users. CineBench has done a lot of good for Cinema 4D popularity, as a lot of hardware sites run it when they benchmark a new system because it is so easy to use. It would be a good publicity for Next Limit, and would make results collecting and storing easier. Of course the only problem is to develop the benchmark, which would take time and resources...

Anyway I believe the benchmark scene should be more representative of a real life project (interior architectural rendering for instance) and of what Maxwell 2 can do regarding materials, etc. The creation of this representative benchmark scene could be the work of the Maxwell community (a competition?).

+1