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Subject: Re: Questions re P4 3.03 with HT ??

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:58:36 12/08/02

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On December 08, 2002 at 22:14:44, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On December 08, 2002 at 21:24:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I also think that the numbers for the HT-enabled stuff might be wrong.  The
>>node counts should vary, because to use HT, it is necessary to run the SMP
>>version of crafty and use mt=2 to use both logical processors.  That will
>>produce variability in the total nodes searched that I didn't see in any of
>>the numbers displayed...
>
>All of Aaron's numbers were single-threaded Crafties.  But Steffen posted a
>result with HT that used LESS total nodes than the single-threaded program, but
>only had a 13% speedup in terms of raw NPS.


OK.  The only data I have to go on at the moment is my dual 2.8 xeon with
HT.  I will try to run the benchmark tomorrow and post results.  I have to be
at the office to do this as the only way I can turn SMT off is to reboot,
go into the BIOS setup and turn "logical cpu" off (Dell's syntax, not mine).

I got a clean 33% faster in NPS.  I didn't check the actual search times
very carefully but I will try to do so.

I can run 1/2 cpus with SMT off, and 3/4 with SMT on, and compare both NPS
and raw time-to-solution times...



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