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Subject: Re: Back to reality...

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 22:22:22 02/21/03

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On February 22, 2003 at 01:13:00, Charles Worthington wrote:

>On February 22, 2003 at 01:05:46, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On February 22, 2003 at 00:31:38, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>
>>>On February 21, 2003 at 23:52:51, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Febronuary 21, 2003 at 23:48:41, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 19:57:10, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 18:02:39, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 17:37:35, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 08:04:18, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 08:02:34, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 07:14:47, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 07:05:22, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 06:47:11, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>On February 21, 2003 at 04:46:53, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bob what program is required for me to conduct benchmark tests with Crafty?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Could you please e-mail it or post a link here to it? Thank you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Charles,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>You have it, the "crafty" program has a built in benchmark ....start crafty in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>dos mode (console) with no crafty.rc file ( a plain taxt file you create with
>>>>>>>>>>>>>engine parameters - but in this case - do not have a crafty.rc file in the same
>>>>>>>>>>>>>directory as crafty).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Type word "bench" at the command prompt.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mike
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Thanks Mike. I haven't set the Crafty you sent me up yet so I didn't know. In
>>>>>>>>>>>>all honesty I have no Idea  how to set it up to run on the Chessbase server. The
>>>>>>>>>>>>Crafty that comes with fritz is already set up so I have never had to set one up
>>>>>>>>>>>>yet. The other foreign progs are easy just drop in the  eng and dll and you are
>>>>>>>>>>>>done. This does not look so easy. :-)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>640 kNs.....Not good :-)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>on your new  machine??
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>ok I see it in your title ...that is respectable for 1.2Ghz Celeron -- it's in
>>>>>>>>>the ballpark -- I think a dual 3 Ghz will get 3M nps....
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Hyatts Dual xeon 2.8GHz only gets 2.1 million in the benchmark..
>>>>>>>>If you scale it up to 3.06x2 + HT you'll only see about 2.3 million.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Crafty v19.4 (1 cpus)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>White(1): mt=4
>>>>>>>>max threads set to 4
>>>>>>>>White(1): bench
>>>>>>>>Running benchmark. . .
>>>>>>>>......
>>>>>>>>Total nodes: 104415743
>>>>>>>>Raw nodes per second: 2130933
>>>>>>>>Total elapsed time: 49
>>>>>>>>SMP time-to-ply measurement: 13.061224
>>>>>>>>White(1): end
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thats good to know aaron but i never said i would pull 3 million with crafty. I
>>>>>>>run fritz primarily. I may experiment some with crafty though. where are u
>>>>>>>getting a 3000kNs figure?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Mike mentioned 3000kN/s. By the way, from what I've seen Crafty will get more
>>>>>>kN/s than Fritz will. Crafty has better support for HT, too. The only way you
>>>>>>will come close to 3 million is by using an AMD system. Those don't need HT and
>>>>>>are fast already. Crafty gets 1.3 million nodes/sec on a P4-3.06GHz with HT,
>>>>>>1.8x speedup and you've got just over 2.3 million nodes/sec, just as Hyatt has
>>>>>>shown us here with his 2.8's. Now, you don't get to use HT (well, it's not
>>>>>>useful yet) in Deep Fritz. Take my CPU for example. I get about 1.6 million
>>>>>>nodes/sec in crafty's benchmark. 1.6 million * 1.7 speedup = 2.72 million
>>>>>>nodes/sec. This will also be quick for Deep Fritz, too. If you want speed and
>>>>>>don't mind pushing your chips a little (only 10% overlock, not much at all)
>>>>>>you'll have the fastest box.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Considering the motherboard will be $150 and each chip is less than $100 thats a
>>>>>>pretty good deal. ~$1000 for a system that gets 2.72 million nodes/sec without
>>>>>>any HT help OR $4000-5000 for a system that gets 2.31 million and has to support
>>>>>>HT. I don't know about you but the decision is pretty clear to me..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>well actually aaron i just watched one of the guys from ccc here in playchess
>>>>>with a dual 2600mp and he was pulling 1995 kNs with deep fritz 7 and was
>>>>>overclocked to over 2800...I saved the game and the kNs posted by the
>>>>>server...and it was more than one game as he was getting demolished by a 2.2 ghz
>>>>>p4 single. Oh and BTW i dont need 3.06 to beat that...Bob's 2.8's will pull 2250
>>>>>themselves. You guys can make all the wild claims here you like but the fritz
>>>>>server tells on you every time. The 3.06 dual will be here next week so If an
>>>>>amd system here can get a higher kNs i want to see it on the server where it
>>>>>counts but u had better do a whole bunch of overclocking and get those cpu's
>>>>>steaming. You would have to be dilusional to believe that AMD 2600MP is superior
>>>>>to a high end Intel Workstation. And I don't need a Degree in computer science
>>>>>to figure that one out. Just a little observation on the server will do. So if
>>>>>you can outpost the xeons dont tell me...come show me..then i will be the first
>>>>>to come back here and congratulate you... :-) Of course it wont happen so...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Oh and also i almost forgot There were others from here that witnessed it too
>>>>along with the speed he claimed to get here...the two wern't even close.
>>>
>>>
>>>Oh and i also believe that if AMD had the technology or the research funds to
>>>have invented hyperthreading technology...they would have. it doesnt take a
>>>rocket scientist to see that two threads are better than one for multiple
>>>applications. So i will keep the 2600 dollar pair of xeons if you don't mind.
>>>Besides i wasnt looking to save money i was looking for a good machine that
>>>didn't_have_to be overclocked to get 2500 kNs. Had I been searching for an
>>>economical system i would have chosen the AMD. But I would have lived with what
>>>I had and not tried to fry eggs on it. :-)) Not everyone here wants 100.00
>>>cpu's. Thats why there are two markets...
>>
>>As koibito pointed out two XP's in SMP configuration are slower than two MP's.
>>Also I've already done the comparison. Koibito (dual athlons @ 2.31) gets more
>>nodes/second than hyatts box. Also, my old AthlonXP 1.6 @ 1.86GHz beat Hyatts
>>dual Xeon running Crafty? Does that make my machine better than his? Sure
>>doesn't. Programs, books, hash sizes, etc were all different. If you take the
>>exact same program with the same settings faster will better. There's no way
>>that single P4 is faster than his dual and that single P4 gets barely half of
>>what my cpu gets in chess stuff.
>>
>>Also, did koibito play a few hundred games against that P4? Did they use the
>>exact same program and settings? You can't make ANY conclusions about speed
>>based off what you've seen in those 1-2 games you saw. If you do then go ahead
>>and assume my old XP 1.86 is better than hyatts xeons.. it's not true but go
>>ahead anyway, you did the same with the dual Athlon box. ;)
>
>actually i never said her machine was faster than his duals...you werent paying
>attention. i said her single cpu was beating him every game...not that it was
>faster...what I_did_say was that his kNs there was waaay lower than what he
>claimed it was here. Nothing more. Everyone is posting unreasonably high figures
>here. Tell us what the machine really does within the bounds of the laws of
>physics...not what you_wish_it would do. I wish mine would get 10,000 kNs but it
>wont. And until something comes out that will get that speed I will be happy to
>stick with whatever is best at the time and not have to roast marshmallows on my
>processors. :-))

What engine what he using? Some engines get REALLLLYYY low nodes/second, some
get really high nodes/second. Want to see an example? Here is my CPU running
Goliath Light v1.5.
http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/fastgl.jpg
6,250kN/s, does this mean my PC is 2x faster than the 8 cpu Deep Junior box used
in the Kasparov game? Nope. The point I'm trying to make is your aren't doing
controlled tests. One PC gets 800kn/s in Shredder 7, the other gets 900kN/s in
Deep Fritz, which is faster? The Shredder 7 PC, actually. See, you need to use
the SAME engine, SAME position, SAME hash tables, etc. We've already done this.
Mine got ~1720kn/s, Hyatt got ~2100, koibito got ~2400kn/s.

You can take Deep Blue and put TSCP on it and then run Chesstiger 15 on a 486.
When the 486 running 2000 nodes/second beats the pc doing 200 million, what are
you going to say? Probably, "486 is my hero!!! I'm going to get a dual 486 and
own everyone! HAHA" :P



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