THthunderbong·Oct 31, 2022Submission
PwshRayTracer: A Raytracer in PowerShell on AWS Lambda
3 points · Open discussionShaunLawrie
PwshRayTracer
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PwshRayTracer
👁️ A raytracer in PowerShell running on AWS Lambda
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What it is
👁️ A raytracer in PowerShell running on AWS Lambda
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 29 | 2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 5 | 2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 12 | 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 19 | 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 26 | 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 10 | 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 17 | 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 24 | 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 31 | 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesDamn, and I thought I loved powershell. This is awesome.
Another of the author's projects sits solidly between awesome and terrifying: https://github.com/ShaunLawrie/PwshRayTracer
> A very slow raytracer in PowerShell that has been optimised from ~100 camera rays traced per second to 4000 rays per second on a 4GHz 6 core CPU with a few tricks
> Because I've been learning a bit of serverless stuff I was curious as to how much faster I could run this using PowerShell in a webscale™ setup by distributing the processing over as many concurrently running lambdas as I could get in my AWS account:
> By using Lambda with large memory sizes to get more cores I had >250,000 camera rays per second (~62x my laptop speed) but I managed to rack up a $200 bill over a couple of bad runs
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